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Gold Lion While the recent trend of recreating classic albums in a dub style kicked off with Easy Star All-Stars' Dub Side of the Moon, interpreting The Beatles with Jamaican sensibilities is nothing new. Ernest Ranglin, Joe White, Ken Boothe and Dawn Penn are among the dozens to have paid tribute to the Fab Four. Latest in line is Rockville, Md. octet Yellow Dubmarine with its Abbey Road tribute...
- www.relix.com
2012-03-08
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Yellow Dubmarine Abbey Dub (Goldlion Records) Bill Frisell All We Are Saying... (Savoy Jazz) Oh, look at this: two very different collections of Beatles-inspired music - one by a free-range jazz legend; the other by a young band of reggae lions - and they both work in the nicest of ways...
- www.jambands.com
2011-11-10
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It is highly unlikely the Fab Four considered the possibility of infusing Abbey Road with the rhythms of Jamaica when they recorded the landmark album at the end of their career in 1969. It takes a lot of gusto for a young band of white musicians from the east coast of America, named Yellow Dubmarine no less, to attempt a full-fledged reggae reinterpretation of an album long considered one of the greatest records of all time and a pinnacle of the LP format...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2011-10-11