PAN HAVE WE DNA includes this
season's winning calypsos which Keith Smith (Trinidad Express)
describes thus: I In Town Too Long is "a coherent calypso
that couldn't fail to impress old and young... the veteran bard in
fact singing two songs in one, the first giving him the opportunity
to show-off his relationship with long-time Trinidad and the second
the opportunity to comment on things in the Trinidad and Tobago of
today."
Ah Don't Rhyme "...brought the entire Dimanche Gras
audience -as it did in the tents - into the song by the creative
conceit of having them supply the chorus rhymes, the kaisonian [Chalkdust]
having set up the process by affirming that when he is vexed his
chorus cannot rhyme the rhymes, in the chorus, though, so obvious
that man, woman or child listening would have to be ignoramuses not
to guess-or, indeed, shout them to the high guffawing heavens." |