Beres Hammond Essentials (listen)
Beres Hammond Essentials (listen)
Beres Hammond Essentials via Apple Music
Beres Hammond makes reggae that’s both impossibly smooth and impossibly soulful, delivering his lyrics with the soft, raspy croon of a wise elder. Of course, in reggae, Hammond is just that: Born in Jamaica’s Annotto Bay, he grew up idolizing R&B singers like Sam Cooke and rocksteady stars like Alton Ellis, and his breakthrough came in the mid-’80s, when he combined their old-school style with the new sounds of dancehall. The result was hits like “Groovy Little Thing,” and that fusion helped birth a new genre, lovers rock. Tracks like “Rock Away” exemplify its charm, reflecting on romance and friendship with warm melancholy.
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