Reggae legend Toots Hibbert roars back with ‘Got to Be Tough.’ Read our review
“As long as I am strong, I am young,” Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, the reggae architect whose deified, six-decade musical career helped popularize the genre, told Got to Be ToughCo-produced by Zak Starkey for his Trojan Jamaica label – with contributions from Starkey’s dad Ringo Starr – is the result of two rum-fueled, round-the-clock recording sessions that blends incendiary, soul-inspired resistance music and horn-driven reggae-funk blasts .
Fighting against systemic corruption has been a theme for Hibbert since his wrongful imprisonment more than 50 years ago for drug possession In 2020, the machines Hibbert rages against with pacifism – systemic racism, economic injustice, climate destruction – only seem to be multiplying. “Let decency counteract your dirty principle that you possess,” he sings on “Warning Warning.” “And be respectful so that everyone can see.
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