Sugar Minott
“Jail House” (Mango) 1979
Sugar Minott’s mournful “Jail House” stands as a quintessential sufferer’s anthem, with Minott’s wavering tenor reproducing the moody tension of late ’70s Kingston under heavy manners. Though Minott is best known for his pioneering dancehall work, his early LPs, Black Roots perhaps foremost among them, give us a glimpse of his origins as a master of the classic roots idiom.
