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Working through remakes of his old standbys ("Pressure Drop," "Broadway Jungle"), as well as gospel-tinged originals ("God Bless You") and a snappy ska treatment of the Kinks' "You Really Got Me," Hibbert ad-libs like he's looking for a spot on an Otis Redding-style soul revue. The heated vocal entreaties and the extravagant swoops and groans are never about showoff technique: They're his way of exhorting listeners to seize the day. Remaking the 1972 classic "Pressure Drop" was unnecessary, but most of Ska Father suggests that Hibbert can be persuasive even when his material is not: Everything he sings, even the moralistic "The Right and the Wrong Way," has the excitement of a soul-saving ritual in progress.
(Posted: Apr 15, 1999)
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- You Really Got Me
- Broadway Jungle '98
- Pressure Drop
- Bound To Win
- Do You Believe
- The Right And The Wrong Way
- All Alone
- Peter, James & John
- God Bless You
- Broadway Jungle (Dub version)
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The Right And The Wrong Way (Dub version) (track not available in Rhapsody)
- You Really Got Me (Dub version)
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