Hoodoo Telemetry 07/07/2009 Engineers include: Carmen Rizzo

Engineers include: Carmen Rizzo

Slim Thug and the fellas come hard out of the gate

Photographer: Rob O'Connor

but substance abuse brought him down just as he was preparing a sustained effort to reach the operatic stage

is like kicking back with a college bud and a brew: summery

Hoodoo Telemetry 07/07/2009 Engineers include: Carmen RizzoDescription If you've followed the beats of his half century career, you'll know Vernon Reid as an artist who paints in every colour. Depending on the era you dive into and the album on your turntable, you'll find the New York polymath pinballing between jazz, metal, punk, funk, electronica and hip hop, cutting heads with collaborators as eclectic as Mick Jagger and Public Enemy, endlessly shedding his skin yet always speaking his truth. Hoodoo