| Rule Dance Hall | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Bunny Wailer |
| Cover: | Rule Dance Hall.jpg |
| Released: | 1987 |
| Genre: | Reggae |
| Label: | Shanachie |
| 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.[1] [2] It was released in 1987 via Shanachie Records.[3]
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".[4]
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."[5] Stephen Davis, in The Reggae & African Beat, called the album "as brilliant as anything Bob Marley ever did."[6] High Fidelity wrote that it celebrates "the lighter, good-times nature of Jamaica's music."[7] The Boston Globe deemed the album "just a misguided mistake."[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."