Description
Blood Brothers is a collaborative side project by the British singer/songwriter Garth Hewitt and the Nigerian-born, British based singer/songwriter Ben Okafor, released on What? Records in 1992, an imprint of Word. The album was recorded and mixed by Bob Lamb at his studio Kings Heath in Birmingham, England; with Ben Okafor producing. Arranged by Okafor and Hewitt. Featuring Garth Hewitt on guitar, harmonica, and vocals, and Ben Okafor guitar, percussion, and vocals, backed by Gladstone Wilson on keyboards and Roger Innes on bass.
Didn’t both of these guys have albums in the last Cross Rhythms? Oh well, so quality and quantity can go together. Forget ‘Ebony And Ivory’ for music reaching across race, Stevie and Paul had to bland out to meet each other musically. Ben and Garth on the other hand already are tilling the same musical field for justice, conscience raising and keeping issues up long after the newspapers have dropped them. Ben’s mix of African rhythms and reggae sits very well alongside Garth’s own folk style with his own African leanings. There are songs of protest here of course. But good protest songs like these don’t need to shout you into submission, they just gently persuade you with unfussy arrangements and straight forward lyrics until you burn for the victims they’re singing for and (hopefully) do something about it. [John Baugh, Cross Rhythms, February 1993]
CD tracklist:
01. Bitter Tears
02. Your Kingdom Come
03. I Didn’t Speak Up
04. Love Sweet Love
05. You’re Too Much
06. Blood Brothers
07. Freedom Tree
08. Over Land, Over Sea
09. The Writing On The Wall
10. We Are One
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