Review
Chalkdust (real name: Hollis Liverpool, Ph.D.) and Black Stalin (real name: Leroy Calliste, no Ph.D. except in the University of Black Man Music) are currently tied at five Calypso Monarch crowns each. No one has ever won more. Of course Chalkie would be the undisputed champ if he’d won the 2002 Dimanche Gras show — which he should have won, and would have won, if not for Sugar Aloes. This gets a little complicated: Sugar might have nailed at least one, and maybe two Monarch victories during the UNC era, if not for his relentless teasing of PM Basdeo Panday and his wife Oma. This year, with Sugar’s beloved PNM party (sort of) back in power, it was a given that he would win, even though his tunes this year were not his best. In any case, Chalkie came with two classic calypsos: From Naipaul With Shame and Ah Lost Roy. Both can be found on this excellent collection, which is Chalkie’s best in years. Kaiso! [MG – Caribbean Beat]
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