Private Life

Product Description:

Personnel: Grace Jones (vocals); Bruce Woolley (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); S.J. Lipson (guitar, bass, keyboards, programming); Barry Reynolds, Mikey (Mao) Chung, J.J. Belle (guitar); Wally Badarou, Andrew Richards (keyboards); Sly Dunbar (synthesizer, drums); Louis Jardim (bass, percussion, background vocals); Robbie Shakespeare (bass); Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson (percussion); The Wall Of Men, Glenn Gregory, John Sinclair, Gary Maughan, The Ambrosian Singers.

Wash Them Go Go: Ju Ju (drums); Little Beats, Shorty Tim (percussion).

The Strictly Unreasonable Zang Tuum Tumb Big Beat Colossus includes: Jamie Talbert (alto saxophone); John Thirkel, Guy Barker, Stuart Brook (trumpet); Pete Beachill (trombone); Geoff Perkins (bass trombone); Frank Ricotti (percussion).

Producers: Chris Blackwell, Alex Sadkin, Trevor Horn.

Compilation producers: Bill Levenson, Jerry Rappaport, Trevor Wyatt.

Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas. Includes liner notes by Brian Chin.

Includes 2 previously unreleased tracks, 4 previously unreleased versions of her hits, and 16 songs appearing for the first time on CD.

A comprehensive collection of Jones' post-disco work, most of it recorded between 1980 and 1982 in Nassau, Bahamas, with a truly remarkable studio band, including the legendary reggae rhythm team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, along with Marianne Faithful collaborator Barry Reynolds on guitar. The songs--which run the gamut from Smokey Robinson to Chrissie Hynde to Johnny Cash--are generally arranged in an innovative, ahead-of-their-time way (echoey yet spare, with lots of deep bass) that owes a bit to dub and in any case provides a perfect backdrop for Jones' Queen of the Undead vocals.