Red (1981)
Album
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Robbie Shakespeare's bass on this 1981 masterpiece is an architectural marvel. Working alongside Sly Dunbar at Compass Point, Shakespeare builds rhythmic pillars that carry Michael Rose's dramatic vocal lines. On Youth of Man and Sponji Reggae, his bass tone is round, massive and relentlessly melodic, pushing reggae into a lean, modernist future without losing an ounce of roots authority.
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