Excellent CD with a focus on the earliest available recordings and religious roots of Calypso music. Also has great liner notes that explain the origins of each track and will help you get started in your pursuit of this wonderful music. These are two smooth instrumentals with a deceptive tempo. Tiger's strong singing accent, which is dotted with an occasional voice break. He also uses a lot of French, which is always great to hear when not spoken by a French person .
Tiger has a fantastic way of rolling several words together into one phonetic bomb.
To my taste, Tiger is one of the sweetest Calypsonians to listen to. That's his picture you see on the opening page, and his voice is no less spooky. Mama, Call the Fire Brigade also has some nice picking, good back up vocals, and is just a good song in general. 16 - Lion also has a crisp voice and a rapid, consonantal delivery as shown on Vitalogy. 19 - King Radio doesn't have the prettiest Calypso voice by any stretch, but in John O'Carr, the music is just right, and the lyrics and chorus are equally catchy.