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Oct 3rd, 2010 20:57pm
 Grace Jones: Ring of Fire (Demo)

Grace Jones has made some classics in her time - the albums she made at Compass Point Studios are mint. 

Warm Leatherette (1980 her fourth studio album) was the first of three albums produced by Chris Blackwell at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. With a backing band that consisted of Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare and Wally Badarou. This included re-imaginings of songs by The Pretenders - Private Life, Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug, Tom Petty - Breakdown, The Normal - Warm Leatherette and Smokey Robinson - The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game.

The rapid follow-up to Warm Leatherette was Nightclubbing (1981) which included covers of The Police - Demolition Man, Iggy Pop and David Bowie - Nightclubbing, Flash and the Pan - Walking in The Rain and Ástor Piazzolla - I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) and not forgetting her massive hit Pull Up to the Bumper co-written by Jones herself, Sly Dunbar, Dana Mano and Robbie Shakespeare.

Living My Life (1982) was the last of three albums she recorded at Compass Point Studios. This time around, Jones wrote or co-wrote every track on the album except for one, The Apple Stretching, which was originally written by Melvin Van Peebles. This cover of Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire is a Demo from the Living My Life sessions that didn't make it on the album, but remains a unique take on a Johnny Cash classic.

A great quote from Grace - I’VE LOOKED THE DEVIL IN THE FACE, AND GOD, AND SOMEHOW I'VE FOUND A BALANCE. BUT BEING EXTREME IS AT THE SAME TIME A BALANCE - ONE EXTREME BALANCES THE OTHER.


 

 

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