Review of the Studio One ‘Money Maker’ compilation at Modern Vinyl

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For a compilation, Studio One’s Money Maker feels a lot like an album. The atmosphere is certainly helped by many of the 10 tracks featuring either I’m & David on horns, Ernest Ranglin on guitar, or both at the same time, as on the gloriously relaxed and funky “Soul Brother.” The production from one Clement “Coxsone” Dodd is what really ties everything together, because while it does sound like classic Studio One recordings such as Clancy Eccles’ “Fattie Fattie,” it looks ahead to the harder-driving, but looser sounds of Toots & the Maytals’ “Funky Kingston.”

Read the full review at Modern Vinyl. Published 10/3/16