Description
Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood Flesh Of My Skin is the most hallowed of all those reggae albums which remain unavailable, and Keith Hudson’s key achievement in a career launched when as a fourteen-year-old he recorded members of The Skatalites on his Shades Of Hudson rhythm. Originally released in 1974, after a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and the rest, it projects Hudson’s removal from JA to London and New York studios and transatlantic audiences, and inaugurates a sequence of albums – classics like Pick A Dub, Brand, Playing It Cool – which show his troubled experimentalism better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7″ reggae format. Anchored here by Santa Davis and George Fullwood from the Soul Syndicate – alongside musicians like Augustus Pablo, Count Ossie and Leroy Sibbles – Hudson’s mood is tormented and dazed, as on titles like Darkest Night, My Nocturne and Testing My Faith he struggles for Black senses of commitment – political, existential, religious – at its breaking point. Magnificently and deadly serious, hauntingly unique, unmissable and unforgettable.
