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Rudder teams with SuperBlue Singers record track for Carnival show
Terry Joseph
T'dad Express, Tuesday, February 7th 2006


Among this season's greatest surprises is a brand-new collaboration
between the incomparable King David Rudder and eight-time road-march
champion SuperBlue, who slipped through the social cracks a few years
ago and has since been the subject of a mixture of derision and pity.

The two former champions teamed to record one of the 23 cuts on the
soundtrack of the musical The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club,
stage version of which, produced by Rudder and Tony Hall and starring
Errol Sitahal and Rhoma Spencer, has its gala premiere tomorrow night
at Queen's Hall.

Speaking yesterday to the Daily Express, Rudder said he heard stories
about SuperBlue and traced him to a house in St James where the
latter was hard at work, recording with Len "Boogsie" Sharpe. "He
wasn't doing any of the things people have been saying he is doing
full-time. He was working," Rudder said.

"I decided to put him on the soundtrack because we need to remind
Super that, whatever the current circumstances, he is an integral
part of this whole music scene," Rudder said. "We must provide him
with opportunities for participation. There was also the reality that
his daughter was on the soundtrack and we couldn't do that and leave
him out. It would be precisely the wrong signal.

"Finding him working told me he is not shying away from putting out
the effort. This might not change anything but we cannot stay on the
side and not make every effort to include him as part of the
contemporary music scene. Let us try and fail, if it comes to that
but to fail to try is to be part of the problem," Rudder said.

Interestingly, the title of the track on which Rudder collaborated
with SuperBlue is "Stepping on the Serpents Head", a subliminal
message for anyone addicted to psychotropic substances, commonly
referred to by Satanic soubriquets.

"I have every confidence that when people hear the song it will raise
their pores," Rudder said. "Both the song and the larger situation
speaks of a man struggling with personal demons. I have experienced
the drug problem at close range, seeing a relative consumed by it and
I know you can't do anything but make the victim feel a sense of
belonging and, as I have seen, it works sometimes. You never know."

"For all that is said about people not wanting to help themselves, we
need to recognise that it is not as easy. It is a personal decision
that the victim has to make and, from what I have seen, apparently
more difficult than other major life decisions but it remains our
social and brotherly responsibility to try to work with and rescue
the fallen among us," Rudder said.

"It is a very heavy album - no baby steps on this one," he said. "The
remake of "Lady Sheila" with Singing Sandra will probably be bigger
than the original version."

I'm looking forward to this comb, Super really needs the support, it's tough spot to be in ....

It's nice of David to give him the opportunity. That's the problem with this industry when they isolate u that's it..

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Rudder and Blue together?

let me go prepare my own grave yes.

salty

y yuh say so, babes??

bcuz the combination of these 2 calypsoca giants recording together is absolutely famtabical! (had 2 make up a new word 4 dat). the song description alone sounds deep and touching. also, they both have dat haunting shango chant they both do in their songs so i already gettin goose bumps.

but i'm glad another artist reached out 2 blue. that addiction ting is no joke. it don't matter if u'r homeless on the street or have millions (i.e. daryll strawberry, rob downey jr, kate moss, etc.) that drug/alcohol ting is a serious problem. i just hope all those ridiculing blue during his troubled times get run over by a maxi taxi when they try 2 jump back on the bandwagon.

salty

I will be purchasing this album

so...is super strung out?...i dont understand...his daughter is doin well...she eh helpin him out?...

[QUOTE=limintrinibwoy20]so...is super strung out?...i dont understand...his daughter is doin well...she eh helpin him out?...[/QUOTE]
she has been trying but as anyone who has dealt with an addict it is not easy.

if this was done anywhere from 1985-2001 I'd be very excited....but hopefully it will be a blessing to the music scene.

[QUOTE=saveoursoca]
wat it is he really addicted to?..i just thought he did gamble weh he money?

[QUOTE=limintrinibwoy20]allegedly cocaine. But i have no confirmation of what the drug actually is.

[QUOTE=saveoursoca]oh ok