![]() The album kicks off with a banger, “Boss Dee Jay,” a killer groove with spacey dub effects under layered patois vocals and utterances, all delivered by Rocker-T inna deejay stylee. This album has something for all reggae fans - roots, dub, early reggae, ska, dancehall, love songs, even Nyabinghi – it’s all there, performed and produced to perfection. Crafted under the nurturing guidance of accomplished savant King Django with plenty of creative input from the clan of reggae-loving musicians that hung around Django’s Version City Studio during the 90s, Nicer By The Hour emulates vintage reggae with precision while offering higher fidelity. Nicer By The Hour offers a rapturous array of reggae styles that demonstrate Rocker-T’s compositional and vocal skills while also showcasing the crackerjack musical and production talents of the Lower East Side New York City reggae scene from which he emerged. While Rocker-T is known throughout the reggae community for his conscious dancehall music, today Rootfire looks back at his first album released as a solo artist, 1998’s Nicer By The Hour which is quite different stylistically from the majority of his catalogue. The lead singer of this band, Rocker-T, eventually relocated to northern California and went on to have a long and successful solo career. ![]() Back in December of 2017, we published a Throwback Thursday article about Give Thanks, the one and only album from Skadanks, a New York City reggae band popular during the 90s. ![]()
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