Title: Early Years: Millennium Series
Artist: Mighty Sparrow
Original Release: 6/5/2001
Genre: World
1. Gun Slingers
4:05
2. Sweetman
3:38
3. Rebel
4:04
4. Bad Johns
4:59
True Trinidad calypso functions as a kind of island gossip sheet, a musical commentary on the daily goings-on, and, at its best, it blossoms into powerful political satire, not to mention the fact that you can dance to it. Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow, is the foremost purveyor of this fascinating genre, and his canon is expansive, with over 70 albums to his credit. From the release of his first record, "Jean and Dinah," a 1956 song about the effect of closing an American air base on Trinidad's prostitutes, Mighty Sparrow Read More
1. Bad Johns
2. Gun Slingers
3. Bull Pistle Gang
3:31
4. Renegades
5:03
5. Bermuda Gal
4:17
6. Roy Sweeter Than You
4:56
7. Taste of the Pudding
3:41
8. Sweetman
9. Rebel
10. Simpson (The Funeral Agency Man)
4:16
11. Hang Mans Cemetary
4:24
12. No Bacchanal
3:54
13. Jack Palace
3:16
14. Short Lil Shorts
5:24
15. Black & White Love
4:42
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