Prince Buster - National Ska: Pain In My Belly

Ska icon Prince Buster changed the face of Jamaican popular music by helping give birth to the form in the late 1950s by blending Caribbean cadences with a rhythm-and-blues backbeat, its rhythmic emphasis shifted to the afterbeat rather than the fore. National Ska: Pain In My Belly is a killer various artists compilation that Buster produced in 1964 for Blue Beat Records in Britain, its blistering contents featuring Toots and the Maytals, Eric 'Monty' Morris, and the Prince himself, as well as the pivotal musicians Don Drummond and Tommy McCook, who would shortly form the Skatalites. Essential listening for all true ska devotees!

Tracklist:

A1 Prince Buster & The Maytals - I Got A Pain
A2 The Maytals - He Is Real
A3 T. McCook - Cast Your Faith To The Wind
A4 Prince Buster - Faith
A5 The Ska Busters - Georgia
A6 Prince Buster - Have Mercy

B1 The Maytals- I Love You So
B2 Eric Morris-Those Teardrops
B3 Prince Buster-Chinaman Ska
B4 The Skatalites-Super Charge
B5 Don Drummond-Ska Town
B6 Prince Buster-Ska School