Johnny Nash

SoulMusic Records is very proud to present “Stir It Up – The Anthology, 1965-1979” a musically scintillating 2-CD set by soul/pop and reggae icon, Johnny Nash. Covering close to fifteen years of recordings, this first-of-its-kind collection includes all of Johnny’s US and UK Epic singles, prime album cuts, recordings from the mid-to-late ‘60s and several tracks from two albums (1977’s “(What A Wonderful World” and 1979’s “Let’s Go Dancing”) which have never been reissued on CD.

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now (1972) {2011 Remastered & Expanded Reissue - Big Break Records CDBBR 0064)
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© 1972, 2011 Epic / Sony Music / Big Break Records / Cherry Red | CDBBR 0064
R&B / Reggae / Pop-Soul / Soul / Reggae-Pop

Once billed as a singer of romantic standards in the style of Johnny Mathis, JOHNNY NASH achieved his greatest success when he visited Jamaica in the 1960s and developed his world-famous reggae-influenced style.For his 1972 album I Can See Clearly Now, Nash worked with Bob Marley and the Wailers, then still a struggling group from Kingston, Jamaica. Marley wrote or co-wrote several songs, and Nash used the group as his backing musicians on the album.

Culled from the deep vaults of Chicago's Chess Records, 'Go Go Power' takes its name from a fantastic slice of gritty Chicago R&B groove by pint-sized soulster Sugar Pie Desanto. The songs here were not chart hits in the U.S., but were popular in the U.K., where clubs devoted to soul music continue to thrive. Marlena Shaw's excellent "Wade in the Water" shows that she wasn't restricted to jazz recordings, and Billy Stewart surprises with the funky rendition of the blues standard "Everyday (I Have the Blues)." As if they weren't potent enough by themselves, Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James team up for "In the Basement" and ask you to "stop and check yourself" on "Do I Make Myself Clear." It's also nice to see lesser-known names make stellar appearances here, like the Knight Brothers – best known for their 1965 ballad "Temptation 'Bout to Get Me" – turn in a Memphis burner with "That'll Get It," while Chicago staple Bobby McClure proves he knows what he wants with the pulsing "Peak of Love." A thoroughly consistent selection that makes for a fine downtown diversion when the uptown gloss and polish of Motown seems too genteel.