Name: Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band [Bonus Tracks]
Brand: Easy Star Records
SKU: 647244
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Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band [Bonus Tracks]

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Album: Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band [Bonus Tracks]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - (featuring Junior Jazz)
2)	With A Little Help From My Friends - (featuring Luciano)
3)	Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - (featuring Frankie Paul)
4)	Getting Better - (featuring The Mighty Diamonds)
5)	Fixing A Hole [Extended Dub Mix] - (remix, featuring Max Romeo)
6)	She's Leaving Home - (featuring Kirsty Rock)
7)	Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! - (featuring Ranking Roger)
8)	Within You Without You - (featuring Matisyahu)
9)	When I'm Sixty-Four [Extended Dub Mix] - (remix, featuring Sugar Minott)
10)	Lovely Rita - (featuring U-Roy/Bunny Rugs)
11)	Good Morning Good Morning - (featuring Steel Pulse)
12)	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Reprise]
13)	Day In The Life, A - (featuring Menny More/Michael Rose)

Album: Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band [Bonus Tracks]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - (featuring Junior Jazz)
2)	With A Little Help From My Friends - (featuring Luciano)
3)	Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - (featuring Frankie Paul)
4)	Getting Better - (featuring The Mighty Diamonds)
5)	Fixing A Hole [Extended Dub Mix] - (remix, featuring Max Romeo)
6)	She's Leaving Home - (featuring Kirsty Rock)
7)	Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! - (featuring Ranking Roger)
8)	Within You Without You - (featuring Matisyahu)
9)	When I'm Sixty-Four [Extended Dub Mix] - (remix, featuring Sugar Minott)
10)	Lovely Rita - (featuring U-Roy/Bunny Rugs)
11)	Good Morning Good Morning - (featuring Steel Pulse)
12)	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Reprise]
13)	Day In The Life, A - (featuring Menny More/Michael Rose)

Performer Notes

Tributee: The Beatles.
After their full coverage of classic albums from both Radiohead and Pink Floyd, the collective known as the Easy Star All-Stars go way back to the band and the album that pretty much changed everything. The accent, as always, is on the Easy part of the band's name, meaning this easy-skanking tribute to Sgt. Pepper's flows effortlessly, never getting caught up in overly ambitious detours or ridiculously huge arrangements. Tracks like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" with guest vocalist Frankie Paul and "Within You Without You" with natural mystic Matisyahu have slick studio touches, but the heavy lifting is left up to the performances, and both guest vocalists are perfect choices who simply nail it. Having been on the road frequently the previous two years pays off, as the players are suitably loose, creating grooves that feel natural and alive. The ever growing importance of the horn section comes to fruition as they shrink some of the original album's elaborate arrangements into smaller packages, ones that could be imagined in a live setting or -- in the case of Ranking Roger's "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" -- at some wicked ska-fueled pool party. The warm voice of Michael Rose closes the set on a dubby "A Day in the Life," a cover version drenched in reverb with a clever imitation of the locked groove gibberish found at the end of the original Pepper's LP. [Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band was also released with a bonus 7" single feature two dub versions.] ~ David Jeffries

Professional Reviews

Billboard (p.63) - "Among the endless stream of highlights are Frankie Paul's lush take on 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,' Max Romeo's delightful 'Fixing a Hole' and Bunny Rugs' and U Roy's profession of unyielding adoration to 'Lovely Rita Meter Maid.'"

Record Collector (magazine) (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The band builds polished, chunky rhythms and the music is enhanced by star guests..."