Party Time (The Heptones album)

Party Time
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Studio album by The Heptones
Released	January 1977
Studio	Black Ark Studios, Kingston, Jamaica
Genre	Reggae
Length	41:27
Label	Island
Producer	Lee "Scratch" Perry
The Heptones chronology
Party Time (1977) Better Days (1978)

Party Time is a studio album by The Heptones and backing band called The Upsetters, released in January 1977. Along with Junior Murvin's Police and Thieves and Max Romeo's War Ina Babylon, this album can be seen as part of a Black Ark/Lee "Scratch" Perry produced "holy trinity". Highlights include the title track, a Rasta-influenced cover of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released", the menacing "Storm Cloud", and the determined "Road of Life". After years of being out of print, the album was remastered and re-released on Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures label in 2003.

Track listing

Original LP

All tracks composed by Leroy Sibbles; except where indicated

1. "Party Time"
2. "Crying Over You"
3. "Now Generation"
4. "Mr. President"
5. "Serious Time" (Barry Llewelyn)
6. "I Shall Be Released" (Bob Dylan)
7. "Storm Cloud"
8. "Road of Life"
9. "Why Must I"
10. "Sufferer's Time" (Lee "Scratch" Perry)

Personnel

• Leroy Sibbles - vocals, bass
• David Madden - horn
• Keith Sterling - piano
• Boris Gardiner - bass
• Phill "Fil" Callender - rhythm guitar
• Winston Wright - keyboards
• Glen DaCosta - horn
• Earl Morgan - vocals, guitar
• Willie Lindo - lead guitar
• Michael "Mikey Boo" Richards - drums
• Noel "Scully" Simms - percussion
• R. William - phase guitar
• Vin Gordon - horn

References

• Party Time - The Heptones