Cool Ruler

Cool Ruler
Studio album by Gregory Isaacs
Released	1978
Recorded	Channel One Studios, Kingston, Jamaica, 1978
Genre	Reggae
Label	Front Line (UK)/African Museum (JA)
Producer	Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Isaacs chronology
Mr. Isaacs (1977) Cool Ruler (1978) Soon Forward (1981)

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Cool Ruler is a 1978 album by Gregory Isaacs, his first released on the Virgin Records subsidiary Front Line. The Jamaican release was on Isaacs' African Museum imprint. The album was produced by Isaacs and mixed by Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie at Channel One Studios in Kingston, Jamaica. Of the tracks on the album, "Let's Dance" had previously been released as a single.^[2] Some of the tracks on the album are considered among the best ever recorded by Isaacs, although the album failed to give him the international breakthrough that had been anticipated.^[2][3] The album title did, however, endure as Isaacs' nickname.^[4] "John Public" was also released as a single.^[2] The album formed the basis of the dub album Slum in Dub, released the same year. Cool Ruler was reissued on compact disc by Virgin in 2000.

Tracklisting

All tracks by Gregory Isaacs except where noted

1. "Native Woman" – 3:02
2. "John Public" – 3:06
3. "Party In The Slum" – 3:26
4. "Uncle Joe" – 3:50
5. "Word Of The Farmer" – 4:08
6. "One More Time" – 3:14
7. "Let's Dance" (John Holt) – 2:56
8. "Don't Pity Me" – 2:22
9. "Created By The Father" (Dennis Brown) – 2:31
10. "Raving Tonight" – 3:57

Personnel

• Vocals – Gregory Isaacs
• Backing Vocals – The Heptones
• Backing Band – The Revolutionaries
• Drums – Sly Dunbar
• Bass – Robbie Shakespeare, Ernest Wilson
• Guitar – Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Ranchie McLean
• Keyboards – Ansel Collins
• Horns – Bobby Ellis, Tommy McCook, Herman Marquis

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ ^{a b c} Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-655-6, p.130
3. ^ Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd edn., Rough Guides, ISBN 1-84353-329-4, p.198
4. ^ Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0242-9, p.136