“Come Along” by The Blue Bells

Over the years, people have asked me what my favorite genre of music is, which for me isn’t an easy question to answer. I usually tell them music that is honest and from the heart, unmanufactured by financiers. For some artists, their reality is so distorted, isolated or trampled on by money that we rightfully question that honesty, while for others it’s clearly felt.

One of my all-time favorite musicians who produced some of the rawest, most transparently honest music ever is Rainford “Lee” Perry. He was uncompromising in the creative process, and for over sixty years, he refused to play nice in a system that held his brilliance back. 

“Come Along” was recorded in 1976 at Perry’s legendary Black Ark Studios, a backyard shed of a space that Bob Marley, The Upsetters, The Clash and even Paul McCartney would record in, and one that Perry would allegedly burn down in  a bizarre fit of eccentricity.
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I adore this song and this version. It lulls you in while that infamous saturated tape echo Perry would nearly trademark sweeps Hector Wright’s vocals away.