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Heart of the Congos — The Congos

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1977 roots reggae album produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry at Black Ark, pairing Cedric Myton's falsetto with Roy Johnson and Watty Burnett's harmonies over a band including Boris Gardiner and Ernest Ranglin. A scarce Jamaican pressing at first after Island Records passed on it, the album reached wider audiences only when Blood and Fire reissued it in 1996, and it is now ranked among the greatest reggae albums ever made.

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45 Years of Heart of the Congos

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In Sheep's Clothing Hi-Fi album retrospective.

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Story · ProbableWhen reggae became an album format

In the mid-to-late 1970s, international labels started signing Jamaican singles artists as album acts, and a run of records built to be heard start to finish redefined what a reggae release could be.