Hold On To What You Got Riddim – Taxi Records

Taxi Records frames this one around a warm, hooky roots groove that leans on melody more than muscle. The 2006 set keeps things tight at five cuts, with Chrisinti on “Natural Love, ” Horace Andy on “Johnny Awful, ” Luciano on “If You Are Not, ” and the sentimental pull of Junior Kelly teaming with Dennis Brown on “Hold The Faith. ” The instrumental version closes it out, so you get the vocal run followed by the bare riddim, which lets the arrangement breathe and makes the bassline and skanking guitar sit right in the open. Taxi’s Sly and Robbie connection hangs over the whole thing, and the title itself nods to an earlier Dennis Brown recording that helped give the riddim its name. It was issued in 2006.