Track Listing 1. Fire City 2. Cowboy Town 3. My Concept 4. Space Within Your Heart 5. Positive 6. Pain 7. Dry Weather House 8. I Create 9. Burning Dub (bonus dub track) 10. Dub Town (bonus dub track) 11. Conceptual Dub (bonus dub track) 12. Space Within Your Dub (bonus dub track)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Black Uhuru, Steven Stanley | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Proper | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Black Uhuru: Michael Rose, Puma Jones, Ducky Simpson.Additional personnel: Chinna Smith (guitar); Cat Coore (cello); Rass Brass (horns); Asher (keyboards); Robbie Shakespeare (bass); Sly Dunbar (drums); Sky Juice (percussion).Recorded at Tuff Gong, Dynamics & Music Mountain, Kingston, Jamaica.1987's POSITIVE is a transitional album for Black Uhuru. The first album released after Sandra "Puma" Jones left the group due to ill health--she died of cancer in 1990--POSITIVE finds Jones' replacement, a near-soundalike named Olafunke, fitting somewhat awkwardly into the harmonies. However, this is also the album where lead singer Junior Reid finally emerges from the shadow of the man he replaced, the great Michael Rose. On earlier Black Uhuru albums, Reid had unfortunate tendencies toward mimicry of Rose's angelic tenor, but throughout POSITIVE, Reid features the sassy baritone growl which served him so well throughout his solo career. Tom Tom Club bassist Steve Stanley produces the album, though former producers Sly and Robbie are still the featured musicians. Stanley's slightly more modern and electronic style suits the uniformly strong material very well, especially on Dunbar's earth-shattering "Fire City."
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