Third World, the band which grew out of Inner Circle, celebrated its 32nd year with 'Committed' at King's House, St. Andrew, in December.
It was there that William 'Bunny Rugs' Clark, Third World's lead singer, made a comment about the nomination in this year's Grammy Awards, saying "we know we naa win nutten still".
Still, if it is up to at least one other nominee in the Reggae
category at the 48th Grammy Awards, Third World will get their first award from 10 nominations. As reported in The Sunday Gleaner last week, Shaggy is rooting for Third World, saying that of all the nominees the band is the only one which has not yet won, this out of nine previous nominations.
Their contender for the golden horn this time around is Black, Gold, Green, an unabashedly patriotic album. Still, there were precious few cuts from the new set on Shanachie Records in their set at last Christmas' 'Committed', as well as their near daybreak run at Rebel Salute 2006 at the Port Kaiser Sports Club in St. Elizabeth on January 14.
tried and proven
Instead, they went back to the tried and proven Sattamas-sagana, Jah Glory and Committed, among others, from their previous 21 albums.
Black, Gold, Green ventures into the guest territory that the band went into on Reggae Party, which featured Bounty Killer and Shaggy. This time around it is Wayne Marshall, who gets two cracks with Touch The Road and Writing On The Wall. Beres Hammond weighs in on Love In The Air and Blu Fox is the guest on Solid.
The album begins with the title track and continues with Nah Sweat. Lovers In a Dangerous Time, Butterflies and Rain, Runaround, Revolution In Her Eyes, Rise Up, Fade Away and There's a Reward complete the 13-track album.
At the launch of Black, Gold, Green last year in the gardens of the Jamaica Pegasus, founding member Stephen 'Cat' Coore explained the reach of the Jamaica presence embodied in the title. "As far as Budapest (Hungary), we went and saw black, gold and green," he said.
He explained that on the title track of the band's 21st album "we did not want to get too heavy in the song. We did not want to get into any nitpicking."
He said "we express this in honour of being citizens of this beautiful island."
