Jimmy Riley - Woman Gotta Have Love

Lee Perry produced this soulful version of the Bobby Womack classic by the same name. The flip is a wicked dub that, IMO, is superior to the better known LP dub of the track. Bobby's original is one of his best, with an infectious walking baseline and lyrics that could only come of real life experience.

Ernest Ranglin - Exodus

Ernest Ranglin covering Ernest Gold's score for "Exodus," Otto Preminger's 1960 film about the birth of the state of Israel. Read more about the great Ernest Ranglin here.

Keith Hudson - Like I'm Dying

Ominously known as "The Dark Prince of Reggae," Keith Hudson was born into a musical family in Kingston, Jamaica in 1946. His musical education began as Hudson worked as a sort of roadie for Skatalite and Jamaican trombone king Don Drummond. By age 21, Hudson, who had been trained as a dentist, sunk his earnings into his own record label, Inbidimts, and had a hit with Ken Boothe's recording of "Old Fashioned Way." Not long after this chart success, the suddenly hot Hudson was producing some of the biggest names (and soon-to-be biggest names) in reggae -- John Holt, Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, and the great toasters U-Roy and Dennis Alcapone, all of whom benefited from what would be Hudson's trademark production style: groove-centered, bass/drum-dominated, lean and mean stripped-down riddims. By the mid-'70s, Hudson began releasing more solo work, hitting paydirt from the start with his 1974 debut, Entering the Dragon and his intense second record, Flesh of My Skin, an ominous, dark record that earned Hudson his title as reggae's "Dark Prince." In 1976, Hudson relocated to New York City and worked pretty much nonstop, producing as well as recording solo records up until 1982. He succumbed to lung cancer in 1984, at age 38, robbing reggae of one its greatest, most adventurous, and unhearalded producers and performers. ~ John Dougan, All Music Guide