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The Congos
Heart of the Congos (1977)
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01) Fisherman
02) Congo Man
03) Open Up the Gate
04) Children Crying
05) La La Bam-Bam
06) Can't Come In
07) Sodom and Gomorrow
08) The Wrong Thing
09) Ark of Covenant
10) Solid Foundation

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First Released

1977

Genre

Reggae

Mood

Carefree

Style

Reggae

Theme

Beach

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Heart of the Congos is a roots reggae album by The Congos, produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry at his Black Ark studio with a studio band including Boris Gardiner on bass and Ernest Ranglin on guitar. The album was released in 1977. It is noted as being one of Perry's masterpiece productions of the Black Ark era.

The first issue of the LP in Jamaica was a very limited release said to consist of only several hundred copies. The original mix of the album was not officially re-issued on either LP or CD until 2017's 40th Anniversary Edition (although an 'unofficial' CD release, sourced from the original LP, was released in 2004 by CORN-FED Productions, based in Amsterdam). Until 2017, all editions subsequent to the first Jamaica release feature a 2nd, substantially different, mix by Lee Perry. The 40th Anniversary Edition includes both mixes of the album, as well as ten bonus tracks.

The album was listed in the 1999 book The Rough Guide: Reggae: 100 Essential CDs.

Pitchfork Media ranked the record at #46 on its "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s".



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