''Life of Contradiction'' is the first album of
reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...
musician
Joe Higgs
Joseph Benjamin Higgs (3 June 1940 – 18 December 1999) was a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson together with Roy Wilson. He was a popular artist in Jamaica for four decades and is ...
. It was recorded in 1972 and released in 1975.
The BBC describes the album as "a highly conceptual, deeply personal record by one of reggae’s true masters that deserves to cross over into popular music’s wider canon".
[Angus Taylor]
''BBC Review Joe Higgs: Life Of Contradiction''
(BBC album review),1 February 2008 The album was recorded with the Now Generation band. The album was re-released in 2008.
Track listing
# Come On Home
# Got To Make A Way
# Wake Up And Live
# Life Of Contradiction
# Who Brought Down The Curtains
# There's A Reward
# Hard Times Don't Bother Me
# My Baby Still Love Me
# She Was The One
# Song My Enemy Sings
# Let Us Do Something *
# Freedom Journey *
*Bonus tracks on the Pressure Sounds reissue only.
References
External links
Billboard review
1975 albums
Joe Higgs albums
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