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John Holt Tribute

11/16/2014

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As a youth growing in Jamaica in the early 1970s like most in that period, the music being made within that time was intertwined with our lives. During that time, music along with football (soccer) were what we’d call batty and bench. Wherever we played, there seemed to be music pumping out of a shack with a generator, some massive speakers and a turntable or at parties, jams, dances that we’d attend pumping the heavy, heavy sounds of the day.

One was either an entertainer ...or a baller. I can’t sing but I could play!

During such times, Bob, Peter, Dennis, Gregory, Junior Byles, Yabby You, Willi Williams, Studio One, Toots, Jimmy Cliff, Horace Andy, Sugar Minott, Bob Andy, Spear, Culture, Big Youth, Third World and so many more influenced our consciousness while we were living in a serious time of strife and tribal war. The Michael Manley / Edward Seaga era tore us apart as a nation to a point that we have never recovered as a world wide nation.

John Holt did drop a few hits of his own. One of my all time favorites is Tribal War, an anthem of that murderous, dark beginning of an era that continues today. Yet he also sang of love. The track “Love I Can Feel” is a timeless gem that needs no explanation.

So fast forward to about 2009 – 2010 and Peter ‘Burna’ Holung, RaLion – Rahm Sharpe-Bebe and I got together to do a project and based on his musical tone and feel, I asked Rahm to cover this John Holt classic, “Love I Can Feel”.

While Burna worked on building and constructing the track ~ bass, keys, guitar, drum ~ RaLion learned the lyrics to the tune. This version was completed in two { 2 } takes!

I felt that it was right to share it with those who loved John Holt and I don’t think that he would mind this version...

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