20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Toots & The Maytal

Performer: Toots & the Maytals
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Compilation producer: Andy McKaie, Dana Smart. Recorded between 1975 and 1988. Includes liner notes by Dana Smart. Digitally remastered by Gavin Lurssen (The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, California). Personnel: Toots Hibbert (vocals). Liner Note Author: Dana Smart. Toots & the Maytals' edition of 20th Century Masters is a very good summation of the group's greatest songs and therefore, their very importance. This doesn't have every great song they've ever done, and is not as comprehensive as other overviews assembled, but as a budget-line collection, it's first-rate, containing nearly everything a casual fan could want, including "Funky Kingston," "54-46 Was My Number," "Pressure Drop," and "Monkey Man." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Some folks say that Frederic "Toots" Hibbert may have been the first to coin the word reggae (one of his early-'60s hits was called "Do The Reggay"). Whether he deserves that credit is open to debate, but there's no question that he's one of the most electrifying performers in the history of Jamaican music, and one of the genre's greatest singers. If Bob Marley and the Wailers took '60s vocal groups like the Impressions and the Temptations as their original inspiration, Hibbert looked more to the Southern soul of Otis Redding or Sam and Dave, although his musical vision is also unusually wide-ranging-- he famously covered both "Louie, Louie" and John Denver's "Country Roads," effectively making them his own.

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