Rhoda Dakar should be known by anyone delving into JA & JA adjacent music around here. She joined the 2-Tone era all-female band The Bodysnatchers & she's been making great reggae, ska, & Rocksteady ever since.
This is Rhoda’s first album in five years. Here Rhoda delivers a 17-song collection (the original 12-track album with five additional bonus tracks) featuring a diverse range of covers chosen by Rhoda, celebrating her love of reggae, ska, & Rocksteady. Most of these songs in these incredibly versatile timeless Jamaican genres
have never before been given proper treatments.
Version Girl's title is derived from Dandy Livingstone's "Version Girl", a song partly used as an intro track to the album. Rhoda's connection to Livingstone dates to her first ever release, a cover of his
"Let's Do Rocksteady" which she recorded with The Bodysnatchers.
Rhoda sez:
"I wanted to go a little left field for this. There seemed no point in covering songs which already had perfectly good Reggae versions. Both UB40 and Madness have already done a series of definitive covers albums. So, rather than hanging on their coat tails, I went for songs that had no previous definitive Reggae, Ska or Rocksteady versions, that we could find anyway. I think it also continues to demonstrate the amazing adaptability of these Jamaican genres!"
Side A -
Version Girl (Version)
Stop Your Sobbing
Everyday is Like Sunday
What a Wonderful World
Hangin' Round
Song to the Siren
Side B -
Walking After Midnight
The Man Who Sold the World
Comme un Arbre
As Tears Go By
Love Hurts
Peace, Love, & Understanding
bonus Dub tracks -
Everday is like Sunday Dub
The Man Who Dubbed the World
Midnight Skank
As Dub Goes By
A Wonderful Version
Enjoy,
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Version Girl
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