Posts Tagged ‘desmond dekker’

THE GORGON SPEAKS

June 25, 2008

Cornell Campbell shall not remove

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Cornell Campbell won Henry Rollins over blind—the old who’s-this?-oh-beautiful trick that the best of the sweet reggae singers can play again and again even two generations past those first sessions at Studio One. Campbell, who hovers in a Desmond Dekker falsetto on spirituals that reach out to touch [...]

 

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