Can’t Take my House, the brand new album from Everton Blender, is scheduled for launch in late August. The 14-song set is the veteran roots singer’s first studio album since 2011’s Increased Heights Revolution.
The title monitor, produced by Molando Dale for Ochi Metropolis Information, was launched in 2021.
The 68 year-old Blender, who lives in South Florida, is happy concerning the album which is robust on the cultural messages that made him a star in the course of the Nineties roots-revival in Jamaica. So robust, that he refused to pinpoint any favourites.
“To be truthful, I can’t pass over anybody particularly. It’s like asking which of all my youngsters is my favorite and I can’t select, as I like all of them… I put my coronary heart in all my songs/infants,” stated Blender.
Like Increased Heights, Can’t Take my House bears the seal of his Mix Dem Music label. It additionally has songs produced by Jason “Jahson” Bromfield for Open Doorways Information in Orlando, Florida, and saxophonist Dean Fraser.
Blender was an unlikely hero of the roots-reggae renaissance in Jamaica 30-odd years in the past. From Clarendon parish in central Jamaica, he was 40 years-old when he bought the breakthrough with songs like Create A Sound, Household Man and Elevate Up Your Head, all produced by Richard Bell for Startrail Information.
Elevate up Your Head, the album, was launched 30 years in the past by Heartbeat Information.
“That album was and nonetheless is iconic to at the present time, and really particular to me because it was my debut album. Each single monitor resonates and speaks to you relying on the scenario,” stated Blender.
The Nineties marked the second section of his profession. The primary passed off a decade earlier, however the songs he recorded then made little affect which left him pissed off, leading to Blender returning to Clarendon the place he settled into designing craft gadgets.
Inspired by mates to have one other crack on the music enterprise, Blender linked with Bell, whose firm had appreciable success all through the Nineties with neo-roots acts like Anthony B (Fireplace pon Rome, Raid The Barn), and Garnet Silk (Hiya Mama Africa) in addition to lovers rock singer Beres Hammond (Come Again House).
In an interview with Howard Campbell, Bell remembers being unfazed by Blender’s age or anonymity.
“Him did have dat Rastaman vibes ‘bout him, an’ dat was di most import factor. Mi neva look into nuh age factor,” stated Bell.
Everton Blender’s final main hit got here in 1996 with Ghetto Individuals Tune, from the Rootsman Credential album, which was sampled in 2022 by rapper French Montana and Harry Fraud for his or her music Increased. He hopes to interrupt that drought with songs from Can’t Take my House.
By Howard Campbell
