{"product_id":"nappy-music-man-soul-pop-disco-funk-crossover-from-trinidad-1975-1981","title":"Nappy: Music Man - Soul-Pop-Disco-Funk-Crossover from Trinidad, 1975-1981","description":"Personnel: Tony Woodroffe, Billy, Allison Glaude, Conrad Waldron.\u003cbr\u003eLiner Note Author: Dave Elcock.\u003cbr\u003eSoca developed in Trinidad and Tobago, and while it's a music that has been documented, there are many areas in its history that are relatively murky. Bear Family's 2015 compilation Nappy: Music Man shines a spotlight on Richard \"Nappy\" Mayers, a singer, guitarist, producer, and arranger who began his career with a band called Embryo and had some solo singles in addition to working with other artists. Bear Family's disc -- which is exceptionally well-annotated by Dave Elcock -- contains 19 of these sides, all recorded between 1975 and 1981, drawing heavily from Embryo's discography and containing a fair share of singles from Nadie La Fond, in addition to singles by Ceasar, Sound Revolution, and Nappy himself. There's a wide variety of artists and the sounds are diverse, too, more than a soca novice might expect: it's Caribbean but it often plays like exceptionally lithe disco or smooth gossamer soul, dipping into perhaps expected funk and reggae, but there's also a bit of country-rock\/soft rock on the closing \"Let Me in Your Life.\" This wide range of sounds underscores how Nappy was indeed a music man but it also winds up sounding like an album of the greatest soulful ideas of the late '70s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378808668447,"sku":"5397102012099","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/f27ff0ef9b2af436b175b16806568a1b.jpg?v=1777777738","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/nappy-music-man-soul-pop-disco-funk-crossover-from-trinidad-1975-1981","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}