''The Slackers and Friends'' is an album by the ska/reggae band

The Slackers The Slackers are an American ska band, formed in Manhattan, New York in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz. The Slackers' notability is credited to their prolific career, tours of Nort ...

. It saw limited release in November 2002, and was later re-released with two additional tracks on January 27, 2004. The album consists of collaborations with various figures from the

ska Ska (; ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walki ...

and

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 ...

scenes, including

Cornell Campbell Cornel Campbell aka Don Cornel or Don Gorgon (born 23 November 1945 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer, best known for his trademark falsetto voice, and his recordings at Studio One in the late 1960s and his later work with Bunny Lee ...

Glen Adams Glen Adams (27 November 1945 – 17 December 2010) was a Jamaican musician, composer, arranger, engineer, producer, based since the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, New York City. Career Adams' mother was from Kingston and his father from St. Vincent; ...

The Upsetters The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. The name of the band comes from Perry's nickname of Upsetter, after his song "I Am the Upsetter", a musical dismissal of his former boss Cox ...

Ari Up Ariane Daniele Forster (17 January 1962 – 20 October 2010), known by her stage name Ari Up, was a German vocalist best known as a member of the English punk rock band the Slits. Biography Ari Up was born in Munich, West Germany. Both her pare ...

of the

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, Doreen Schaefer of the

Skatalites The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including " Guns of Navarone." They also played on records by Prince Buster and backed many othe ...

, and acoustic ska artist Chris Murray.Moskowitz, David V. (2006) 'Caribbean Popular Music'', Greenwood Press, , p. 160''The Beat'', Volume 22, Issues 2-5 (2003), p. 20 The original edition of the album also featured an eight-minute-long

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(a remix of the album's other songs) by DJ Cris the Reducer. On the re-release, this was replaced by two additional tracks written and recorded by Susan Cadogan. Several of the songs are remixes of previously recorded Slackers songs, while others are unique to this album.

Track listing

# "Come Come" (featuring Cornell Campbell) – 3:25 # "Mash Down Babylon" (featuring

The Congos The Congos are a reggae vocal group from Jamaica which formed as the duo "Ashanti" Roy Johnson (tenor) (b. Roydel Johnson, 1947, Hanover, Jamaica) and Cedric Myton (falsetto) (b. 1947, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica), later becoming a trio ...

) – 4:09 # "The Party" (featuring Doreen Schaeffer) – 3:41 # "Schooling the Youth" (featuring Glen Adams with John Fx) – 5:12 # "Matey Exterminator" (featuring Ari Up) – 6:23 # "Running from Safety" (featuring Chris Murray) – 2:47 # "Two-Faced Man" (features

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with Cornell Campbell) – 4:05 # "Grabalicious Man" (featuring The Congos) – 3:06 # "Thinking of You" (featuring Doreen Schaefer) – 3:45 # "I Am a Rasta Man" (featuring Chris Murray) – 2:14 # "The Power and the Glory" (featuring The Congos) – 7:07 # "You Turn Me On" (featuring Susan Cadogan) – 3:59 (re-release only) # "Since I Found You" (featuring Susan Cadogan) – 3:28 (re-release only)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Slackers and Friends, The The Slackers albums 2002 albums