Pick Up the Pieces | ||||
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Studio album by The Royals | ||||
Released | 1977 | |||
Recorded | Channel One Studios, Dynamic Sounds, King Tubby's, Randy's, Kingston, Jamaica, 1973-77 | |||
Genre | Reggae | |||
Label | Magnum/Tamoki Wambesi/Ballistic/Pressure Sounds | |||
Producer | Roy Cousins | |||
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Cover from the Tamoki Wambesi release.
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Pressure Sounds reissue | ||||
Cover from the Pressure Sounds release.
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Pick Up the Pieces is the debut album from Jamaican roots reggae group The Royals, collecting recordings made between 1973 and 1977, and produced by Royals lead vocalist and only constant member Roy Cousins. Musicians on the album include members of The Wailers, Soul Syndicate, The In Crowd, and the Now Generation. The album was later licensed to United Artists subsidiary Ballistic Records, and was reissued in an expanded form in 2002 by Pressure Sounds. The songs on the album have been described as "some of the most musically sublime expressions of Rastafarian faith and the hardships of ghetto living Jamaica has produced".