:: Eddy Grant - The Very Best Of - Road To Reparation

Eddy Grant

Eddy Grant has certainly come a long way since his musical playing days in The Equals, even so far as cutting a best of compilation. It’s been a long time coming, but Grant has taken it upon himself (and his business advisor most probably) to produce a full anthology of his own provocative reggae scoob-smoking sound… you can smell the days smoking away. It’s been over six years since the Bob Marley contemporary has released anything and what better way than rewarding your middle to elderly fan base with some more of the same. You have to give it to him as it must be difficult removing yourself from the massage table, lying next to that palm tree, to hit his very own recording studio down the road. I’m being serious, the guys is 60 years old. I’m going to have trouble getting onto that massage table when I’m his age. The track list ensembles the usual suspects, the hits that graced our ears and the UK pop charts in the 80s. But it is not these tracks that this insight boasts. It is rare and more native influenced tracks towards the end of the album that really stand out, potential points for maximising sales. These tracks include: California Style and Dance Party. Free love and free politics presumably flow within he tracks. Most political is the track Gimmie Hope Jo’anna, Graham’s plea for the apartheid to end in South Africa. It is no surprise he was asked to perform at Nelson Mandela’s birthday gig.