The Heptones - Swing Low [Red LP]

Cat. no: BSRLP915R
Format: LP Red
Barcode: 5036436156023
Release Date: 30 May 2025
Genre: Reggae

Swing Low, originally released in 1985, is charming, confdent and subtly  innovative from start to fnish

Now available in Red vinyl with extensive sleeve notes.

Legendary, genius, groundbreaking, seminal and other similarly hyperbolic adjectives have been used in promoting artists time and time again, often to describe the most mediocre talents. However, one group fully deserves all of these plaudits and many more besides as The Heptones are undoubtedly one of the most accomplished, signifcant and infuential Jamaican vocal harmony trios. Amongst genuine lovers of Jamaican music their standing is beyond compare but, outside of the confnes of reggae music, it is still nowhere near as assured. And, even with the beneft of hindsight, it is difcult to understand how and why, despite Island Records giving them a very similar promotional platform in the mid seventies, The Heptones never followed Bob Marley & The Wailers, Toots & The Maytals and Burning Spear into the realms of international recognition.

Tracks: Swing Low / Book Of Rules / Down Comes The Rain / You Decorated My Life / Pack Your Things / Heaven / Promise To Be Ture / What It Is / So Long / I'm So Proud