• Source: Cool Ruler

      • Cool Ruler is a 1978 studio 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. 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. The album title did, however, endure as Isaacs' nickname. "John Public" was also released as a single. 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.


      Track listing


      All tracks by Gregory Isaacs except where noted

      "Native Woman" – 3:02
      "John Public" – 3:06
      "Party in the Slum" – 3:26
      "Uncle Joe" – 3:50
      "World of the Farmer" – 4:08
      "One More Time" – 3:14
      "Let's Dance" (John Holt) – 2:56
      "Don't Pity Me" – 2:22
      "Created by the Father" (Dennis Brown) – 2:31
      "Raving Tonight" – 3:57


      Personnel


      Gregory Isaacs - vocals
      The Heptones - backing vocals
      The Revolutionaries - backing band
      Sly Dunbar - drums
      Robbie Shakespeare, Ernest Wilson - bass
      Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Ranchie McLean - guitar
      Ansel Collins - keyboards
      Bobby Ellis - trumpet
      Tommy McCook - tenor saxophone
      Herman Marquis - alto saxophone
      Technical
      Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie - engineer
      Armet Francis - sleeve
      Dave Hendley - photography


      References

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