Keith & Tex – Freedom Vinyl LP

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No Jamaican singing duo has enjoyed a comparably resilient, prolific, and successful partnership as Keith Rowe and Phillip Tex Dixon. Known worldwide for their 1967 signature hit Stop That Train (a cover of the Spanishtonians 1965 ska song) and other original mega-popular anthems from the rocksteady era like Tonight, Keith & Tex, who befriended each other as teenagers, have been using the last two decades to make up for lost timea near thirty-year stretch during which they were apartseparated due to divergent twists of fate including Keiths immigration to the United States, and later, Texs to Canada. Following their critically acclaimed 2017 album Same Old Storyproduced by talented and versatile producer-musician Roberto Sanchez, with all instruments played by Sanchez and Sanchezs studio band, The Lone Ark Riddim Force, at Sanchezs A-Lone Ark Muzik Studio in Cuerto, SpainFreedom follows the same successful formula; again produced by Sanchez, the album combines sweet, soulful, melodic harmonies, and mature lyrics with the masterclass musicianship of Sanchez and his band, stunningly recreating the authentic sound Jamaican music studios produced in the 1960s and 70s. As with any productive collaboration, their additional experience together and time spent complementing each other has only sharpened the final product. Moreover, Keith & Tex are only getting better with agemaking Freedom shine like perhaps no other album yet in Keith & Texs extensive discography.