BOOTHE, KEN - Inna De Yard (Sealed) (CD)

Every good song has something individual about it, the phenomenon of reinterpreting what exists that is widespread in music history does not change that. Especially in Jamaica it is still common practice to hear one and the same hit from different performers. A prime example of this is Ken Boothes recording of "Speak Softly Love". The piece became famous as a soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfathers", but it had already been heard in 20 other films before, and the melody was "borrowed"from an opera by Verdi. Boothe recorded the piece for the first time in 1974. And more than 40 years later, he finds a new entrance on a terrace when he makes his new recording. But his songs also continued to live on, for example in the versions of his greatest hit "Everything I Own" by Boy George or UB40, and during the usual acoustic "Inna De Yard"session under the open sky and with many guests, the singer looks back on his career, which he began in 1963 at the age of 15. Boothe shows his roots in rocksteady and raggae and shows how a rastafari can be a great soulman and gospel singer as well.