The new album is coming this Friday.
With his first studio album in a decade, Got To Be Tough, due for release this Friday, Jamaican musical icon Frederick "Toots" Hibbert today unveils its latest single 'Just Brutal', out now via Trojan Jamaica / BMG.
An unflinching torrent of Stax-style soul-pumping-on-adrenaline horns with a socially conscious heart, 'Just Brutal' comes in the wake of widespread praise for the album from the likes of Rolling Stone, and ups the pressure ahead of Friday's much-anticipated album drop. The energizing provocation of the forthcoming album Got To Be Tough renews the near six-decade career of the man who launched a new sound and genre with his 1968 release, 'Do The Reggay.' It's a reminder that through Toots' creative veins run all the roots and shoots of the Black Diaspora. Blues, soul, r'n'b, funk, jazz, reggae, African griots - Toots honors, embodies and owns them. Throwing down an authoritative guide: how to survive and thrive among our earth challenges. He hipped our heads in the 1970s with the dynamic pan-Africanism of 'Funky Kingston' and the early warning message of 'Pressure Drop'; re-defining soul with the 'Toots In Memphis' LP in the 80s.Listen to "Just Brutal" here:
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