Basically, I spent two years as Gary Gersh's folly, when my name and the word 'no' were never heard in the same sentence. But if I had to choose a favourite record between the two, I think I'd choose this one. I guess you always would, but I just love the way this new one was made. You couldn't rent it out as a pre-production studio in London. And the guy who mixed this record, Stephen Stanley, who works with people like Beenie Man, Buju Banton and Burning Spear, is a total genius and a long-time idol.
Country music is hugely popular in Jamaica.
Johnny Cash has lived there for twenty-five years, and they love him and they love Jim Reeves. Al Pancho, when we asked him to toast on something, he immediately said, 'I wanna toast to some country tune, you know'. In fact, the night we got to Kariang, which is an old colonial mansion which has fallen into ridiculous disrepair, and we can hear all this drumming coming from a bunch of Rastas in a cloud of smoke in the kitchen. And they're all listening to the radio and drumming along, and you think it's going to be some really heavy dub record. . . It was a perfect place to work.