Artist: Big Mountain
Genre(s):
Reggae
Discography:
New Day
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Big Mountain - Things to Come
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Free Up
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Resistance
Year: 1996
Tracks: 17
Unity
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Much care UB40, American reggae band Big Mountain brought a selfsame commercialized adaptation of Jamaican music to the American mainstream when their traverse of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way" reached the Top Ten in early 1994. To the band's credit, though, their trinity albums carry reggae roots music combined with only when various R&B-ish covers, and the lineup includes iI Jamaicans with first-class credential: rhythm guitarist Tony Chin and drummer Santa Davis -- both of whom played with the Peter Tosh isthmus and the Soul Syndicate.
Vainglorious Mountain was originally formed in San Diego as the Rainbow Warriors. After several age of dizzying lineups and deuce name changes -- first-class honours degree to Shiloh and in conclusion to Big Mountain -- the group centralised about vocalist/guitarist Quino, with round guitar player Jerome Cruz, drummers Gregory Blakney and Lance Rhodes, keyboard participant Manfred Reinke, and bassist Lynn Copeland. That lineup released Wake Up on the Quality judge in 1992 and charted "Disturb My Light" other the undermentioned year. The exclusive reached figure 51 in America, but only one year later Big Mountain began to experiment with several different guitarists. After several changes, Tony Chin became useable and united Quino and Copeland with new additions Santa Davis, James McWhinney (rhythm section) and keyboard players Billy Stoll and Michael Hyde. During roger Huntington Sessions for their sec album, film producer Ron Fair approached Big Mountain most transcription a cover of "Baby, I Love Your Way" for his forthcoming film Reality Bites. Included on the soundtrack and the group's 1994 1 album, the single reached identification number six-spot in the U.S. and became a general hit.
Despite Big Mountain's success on the commercial bolt down charts, most of the reggae community remained faithful to the band; the group headlined two straight Reggae Sunsplash festivals in Jamaica during massive existence tours that crisscrossed Europe, North and South America, Asia and Indonesia. Third album Opposition was released in 1995, followed deuce years later by Free Up.
