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  • Bob Dylan, Empire Burlesque, 1985 on Columbia

    Bob Dylan, Empire Burlesque, 1985 on Columbia

    I know some people don’t love mid-eighties Dylan, but I really do. He’s working here with Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Howie Epstein (from the Heartbreakers) as well as Mick Taylor, Sly Dunbar, and Robbie Shakespeare, plus a wonderful set of backing vocalists. The big single here was “Tight Connection To My Heart” which got a…

  • Sly & Robbie; The Sixties, Seventies + Eighties = Taxi; 1981 on Mango

    Sly & Robbie; The Sixties, Seventies + Eighties = Taxi; 1981 on Mango

    Great collection of songs produced by Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, whose production company and label were both called Taxi, released on Mango which was an Island Records subsidiary focused on Caribbean artists. Great covers of Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” and the Lennon-McCartney “I Should Have Known Better” as well as some more traditional ska…