Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.112) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 Reissues of 2003"
Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The album is especially wonderful because it reveals the connections between [Jamaica's] music and stone-cool soul from America....it's unmistakbaly Jamaican, and sublime."
The Wire (6/03, p.76) - "...These new interpretations of his earlier Studio One triumphs like 'Hot Milk', 'Darker Shade of Black' and 'Drum Song' are galvanised by the drums of then ultra-hot Sly Dunbar with the aid of Scully on percussion..."
Mojo (Publisher) (7/03, p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Sly and Robbie offer drums and bass, and Bunny Lee weaves magic in the studio..."
Personnel includes: Jackie Mittoo (keyboards); Earl "chinna" Smith, Carl Harvey, Jeffrey Chung, Winston Bowen, Keith Sterling (guitar); Winston Wright (Clavinet, organ); Robbie Shakespeare (bass); Sly Dunbar (drums); Noel "Skully" Simms (percussion).
Recorded in Kingston, Jamaica between 1976 & 1977.