• Ranking Dread – God Blessed Children
    • Ranking Dread – Natty Dread Is A Struggler
    • Ranking Dread – Poor Man
    • Ranking Dread – Girls Fiesta
    • Ranking Dread – Africa
    • Ranking Dread – Natty On The Rock/Death Trap
    • Ranking Dread – Sister Lorna
    • Ranking Dread – Kilburn Lane
    • Ranking Dread – Marijuana Soul
    • Ranking Dread – Ranking Ting
    • 1. God Blessed Children
    • 2. Natty Dread Is A Struggler
    • 3. Poor Man
    • 4. Girls Fiesta
    • 5. Africa
    • 6. Natty On The Rock/Death Trap
    • 7. Sister Lorna
    • 8. Kilburn Lane
    • 9. Marijuana Soul
    • 10. Ranking Ting

    Ranking Dread was as much of a myth and enigma as he was a music man and badman. But today he remains the connoisseur’s Dee Jay, admired for his slick style and delivery and compared to other noteworthy DJ’s of the time, can be seen as crucially under-recorded, having only released 4 albums and a handful of singles in his recording career. Girls Fiesta is Ranking Dread’s first album, originally released in 1978 and contains some tough Linval Thompson rhythms taken from various Linval productions, most notably his "Love Is The Question” album. This album stands at the crossroads of the Dee Jay phenomenon linking the eras between the might of I Roy and U Roy and the Dancehalls ruled by the Roots Radics rhythms. This is Rub A Dub at its finest. After the early 80’s Dread’s recording career faded away as he got swept away into a serious life of crime..Rhythms laid down at Channel One Studios by Sly & Robbie (amongst others) and Dread’s material voiced at Chalk Farm Studios Camden, engineered by Sid Bucknor.

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