Rule Dance Hall
{{Infobox album
| name = Rule Dance Hall
| type = studio
| artist = Bunny Wailer
| cover = Rule Dance Hall.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1987
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Reggae
| length =
| label = Shanachie
| producer =
| prev_title = Rootsman Skanking
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = Liberation
| next_year = 1988
}}
Rule Dance Hall is an album by the Jamaican reggae musician Bunny Wailer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bunny-wailer-mn0000636474/biography|title=Bunny Wailer | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{cite news |last1=Milward |first1=John |title=Wailer Will 'Soon Come' for Tour of States |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=23 Feb 1989 |page=D1}} It was released in 1987 via Shanachie Records.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARrDQKqFo7AC&pg=PA297|title=Reggae & Caribbean Music|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=June 27, 2002|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|via=Google Books}}
Production
The album was made with the Roots Radics band. Rule Dance Hall contains cover versions of Sam Cooke's "Saturday Night" and the Wailers' "Stir It Up".{{cite news |last1=Swenson |first1=John |title=Rule Dance Hall, Bunny Wailer, (Shanachie) |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |agency=UPI |date=January 29, 1988 |page=E2}}
Critical reception
{{album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rule-dance-hall-mw0000195949|title=Rule Dance Hall - Bunny Wailer | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}
|rev2 = Robert Christgau
|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=8 |page=466}}
|rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=743}}
}}
The State called the album Wailer's "most successful outing in years," writing that he's "returned to the heavy drums and bass rhythms that are prevalent in the Jamaican dance halls."{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Michael L. |title=Bunny Wailer Patriarch of Reggae Sound |work=The State |date=February 26, 1988 |page=8B}} Stephen Davis, in The Reggae & African Beat, called the album "as brilliant as anything Bob Marley ever did."{{cite magazine |last1=Davis |first1=Stephen |title=The Marley Legacy: 1987 Update |magazine=The Reggae & African Beat |date=1987 |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=13-15}} High Fidelity wrote that it celebrates "the lighter, good-times nature of Jamaica's music."{{cite magazine |last1=Jaffee |first1=Larry |title=Reviews |magazine=High Fidelity |date=May 1989 |volume=39 |issue=1-7 |page=73}} The Boston Globe deemed the album "just a misguided mistake."{{cite news |last1=O'Neill |first1=Lee |title=Records |work=The Boston Globe |date=9 Jun 1988 |department=Calendar |page=8}}
AllMusic wrote that "Bunny is in top form to deliver a set of old-school-tempo tunes intent on teaching the newer generation a musical history lesson."
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing =
| title1 = Rule Dance Hall
| length1 = 3:53
| title2 = Jolly Session
| length2 = 4:05
| title3 = Saturday Night
| length3 = 3:38
| title4 = Trash Ina We Bes
| length4 = 3:50
| title5 = Put It On
| length5 = 3:52
| title6 = Reggae in the U.S.A.
| length6 = 3:46
| title7 = Haughty Tempo
| length7 = 4:41
| title8 = Camouflage
| length8 = 3:52
| title9 = Hot Food Head
| length9 = 4:17
| title10 = Stir It Up
| length10 = 3:38
| title11 = Old Time Sinting
| length11 = 3:43
| title12 = Reasons
| length12 = 3:08
| total_length =
}}
References
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