Da Real Thing
Personnel includes: Sizzla (vocals); Ian "Breezy" Coleman, Dalton Browne (guitar); Dean "Cannon" Feraser (horns); Paul "Wrong Move" Crossdale (keyboards); Donald "Danny Bassie" Dennis (bass); Kirk Bennet (drums); David Anglin, Sly Dunbar (percussion); Passion, Rochelle (background vocals).The leader of the Bobo Dread contingent continues to flirt with overexposure on this, his fifth release of 2002 (not counting Best of Sizzla: The Story Unfolds, also released in 2002). Luckily, Sizzla's energy seems to be unlimited and his bag of lyrics bottomless. And producer Bobby Digital appears to have an equally unlimited supply of neo-roots rhythms on hand; this is not the usual grab bag of familiar rhythms delivered in lackluster computer renderings, but a generous program of generally new and original instrumental arrangements played by actual human beings (and produced in the digitally clean style that is Bobby Digital's trademark). Not surprisingly, Da Real Thing continues in roughly the sa