Hot Stepper: The Best Of Gregory Isaacs by Gregory Isaacs - DeepRiffs

ALBUM

Volume 1

Volume 2

Gregory Isaacs' massive output makes even a two-disc selection like this one seem like a three-minute skip through an art museum. Isaacs has been a Jamaican institution for decades, the very epitome of cool lovers rock and he had little trouble adapting his style to the constant shifts in Jamaican music preferences and flavors. This set has some of his best songs, including the Niney Holness-produced "Slave Master" and Isaacs' signature "Night Nurse," but it lacks other essential tracks like "Motherless Children" and "Poor & Clean," to name just two, making it more a stopgap purchase than a definitive one. That said, Isaacs' confident, unhurried tenor vocals hover over everything here, and while he is seldom flashy as a vocalist, his steady, subtle phrasing has led many to hail him as Jamaica's greatest singer. There's just more to this fine singer than what's presented here.
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Volume 1

1. Black A Kill Black

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gary Lawrence
Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs
Gary Lawrence; Other

2. Mr. Cop

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

3. Thief A Man

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

4. Mr Know It All

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Ossie Hibbert; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs
Campbell; Other

5. Slave Master

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

6. Confirm Reservation

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Performer: Gregory Isaacs; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Recording Arrangement: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

7. Hush Darling

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

8. If I Don't Have You

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

9. My Only Lover

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

10. Oh What A Feeling

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Lowell Dunbar
Robbie Shakespeare; Composer
Producer: Sly Dunbar
Robbie Shakespeare; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs
Robbie Shakespeare
Lowell Dunbar; Other

11. Permanent Lover

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

12. Poor Millionaire

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

13. Substitute

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

14. Cool Down The Dub

by Gregory Isaacs

Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Assistant Producer: Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

15. Cool Down The Pace

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Errol "flabba" Holt; Performer
Drums: Lincoln Scott; Performer
Guitar: Dwight Pinkney
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Keyboard: Wycliffe Johnson; Performer
Performer: Wycliffe Johnson
Dwight Pinkney
Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt
Lincoln Scott
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Vocals: Gregory Isaacs; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Assistant Producer: Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Engineer: Errol Brown; Production
Mixing: Godwin Logie; Production
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Studio Personnel: Errol Brown
Godwin Logie; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

16. Hot Stepper

by Gregory Isaacs

Bass Guitar: Errol "flabba" Holt; Performer
Drums: Lincoln Scott; Performer
Guitar: Dwight Pinkney
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Keyboard: Wycliffe Johnson; Performer
Performer: Wycliffe Johnson
Dwight Pinkney
Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt
Lincoln Scott
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Vocals: Gregory Isaacs; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Assistant Producer: Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Engineer: Errol Brown; Production
Mixing: Godwin Logie; Production
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Studio Personnel: Errol Brown
Godwin Logie; Production
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

Volume 2

1. Tune In

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production

2. Sad To Know (You're Leaving)

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Alphonso Weise; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Alphonso Weise; Other

3. Stranger In Town

by Gregory Isaacs

Bass Guitar: Errol "flabba" Holt; Performer
Drums: Lincoln Scott; Performer
Guitar: Dwight Pinkney
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Keyboard: Wycliffe Johnson; Performer
Performer: Wycliffe Johnson
Dwight Pinkney
Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt
Lincoln Scott
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Vocals: Gregory Isaacs; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Assistant Producer: Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Engineer: Errol Brown; Production
Mixing: Godwin Logie; Production
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Studio Personnel: Errol Brown
Godwin Logie; Production
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

4. Top Ten

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Performer: Gregory Isaacs; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Recording Arrangement: Gregory Isaacs; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

5. Unhappy Departure Dub

by Gregory Isaacs

Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Assistant Producer: Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

6. Material Man

by Gregory Isaacs

Bass Guitar: Errol "flabba" Holt; Performer
Drums: Lincoln Scott; Performer
Guitar: Dwight Pinkney
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Keyboard: Wycliffe Johnson; Performer
Performer: Wycliffe Johnson
Dwight Pinkney
Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt
Lincoln Scott
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Vocals: Gregory Isaacs; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Assistant Producer: Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Engineer: Errol Brown; Production
Mixing: Godwin Logie; Production
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Studio Personnel: Errol Brown
Godwin Logie; Production
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

7. Night Nurse

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Errol "flabba" Holt; Performer
Drums: Style Scott; Performer
Guitar: Dwight Pinkney
Bingy Bunny; Performer
Keyboard: Steely; Performer
Performer: Steely
Dwight Pinkney
Wally Badarou
Errol "flabba" Holt
Bingy Bunny
Style Scott; Performer
Synthesizer: Wally Badarou; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Assistant Producer: Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Engineer: Errol Brown; Production
Mixing: Godwin Logie; Production
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Studio Personnel: Errol Brown
Godwin Logie; Production
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

8. Not The Way

by Gregory Isaacs

Bass Guitar: Errol "flabba" Holt; Performer
Drums: Lincoln Scott; Performer
Guitar: Dwight Pinkney
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Keyboard: Wycliffe Johnson; Performer
Performer: Wycliffe Johnson
Dwight Pinkney
Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt
Lincoln Scott
Eric "bingy Bunny" Lamont; Performer
Vocals: Gregory Isaacs; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Assistant Producer: Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Engineer: Errol Brown; Production
Mixing: Godwin Logie; Production
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Studio Personnel: Errol Brown
Godwin Logie; Production
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

9. Out Deh

by Gregory Isaacs

Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

10. Private Secretary

by Gregory Isaacs

Bass Guitar: Errol "flabba" Holt; Performer
Drums: Style Scott; Performer
Guitar: Dwight Pinkney
Bingy Bunny; Performer
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Keyboard: Steely; Performer
Performer: Steely
Dwight Pinkney
Phil Ramacon
Errol "flabba" Holt
Bingy Bunny
Style Scott
The Roots Radics; Performer
Synthesizer: Phil Ramacon; Performer
Vocals: The Roots Radics; Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Engineer: Errol Brown; Production
Mixing: Paul Smykle; Production
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Studio Personnel: Errol Brown
Paul Smykle; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

11. Star

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

12. Yes I Do

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs; Composer
Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Composer Lyricist: Gregory Isaacs; Other

13. Dieting

by Gregory Isaacs

Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

14. Good Morning

by Gregory Isaacs

Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

15. Love Me With Feeling

by Gregory Isaacs

Producer: Gregory Isaacs
Errol "flabba" Holt; Production
Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

16. Love Me With Feeling

by Gregory Isaacs

Primary Artist: Gregory Isaacs; Main Performer
Composer: Gregory Isaacs
Sylvester Weise; Composer
Composer Lyricist: Sylvester Weise
Gregory Isaacs; Other

Technical Specifications

Volume

2 volumes in total

Tracks

32 tracks available

Type

ALBUM

Format

Digital Media

Duration

2 hours, 2 minutes and 28 seconds

Explicit

None

Coverart

Available and up to 640x640 px

Booklet

Not available

Max Quality

CD Quality (Lossless)

16bit / 44.1 kHz

Stereo

Audio Extension

Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF

Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA

Archive Format

Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR

Lyrics

22/32 tracks have lyrics

Synchronized Lyrics

15/32 tracks have synced lyrics

Genres

Reggae, World

Label

UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Music Distribution Service

Unknown

Country

United Kingdom

United States

Language

English (United States)
Jamaican Creole English

Popularity

Release Date

Dec 31, 2007

Track Preview

Available

Delivery Charge

Free

Delivery Method

Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site

UPC

60075314777