Everybody knows him as the "I can see clearly now" guy Johnny Nash. I bought this record solely because I thought his hit was interesting, totally over played, but I wanted to hear what the rest of his music sounded like. Hold Me Tight is a full blown Desmond Dekker sounding Rocksteady album, keep in mind Nash is American and the first to export the sound, I couldn't believe it, it was great! This album was recorded, apparently, in Jamaica, and has two numbers written by Peter Tosh,
Love and
You Gotta Change Your Ways, which are the best tracks on the record, especially
Love, a cool Rockseady ballad. Further footnotes, this album was released on his own record label JAD Records, and his label signed some of The Wailers luminaries, Bob included. Also the cover and back cover have various pictures of Nash in a waterfall scene, not taken in Jamaica, but taken in the gardens of Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal. What's strange about that is if the album was recorded in Jamaica, why have the pictures taken in the gardens of a hotel? Musta been a Canada only release, with that specific cover? Anyway I can see clearly that Johnny Nash is awesome now!
