A smash like 'August Town' Duane Stephenson will not easily produce again, but with 'Black Gold' (a title that instills somewhat high expectations) he delivers a worthy successor to his debut effort 'From August Town'. The album opens strong with 'Nah Play', 'Stay At Home', a duet with Queen Ifrica and a reworking of the eponymous Dennis Brown Classic is also impressive and 'Suffer's Heights' is a kind of successor to Duane's big hit, the aforementioned 'Augustus Town'. Stephenson is above all a gifted balladeer, so if the slower work is not your thing, 'Black Gold' might not be the album for you. The title 'Black Gold' refers to petroleum, the sticky black stuff that is at the basis of numerous conflicts that fill our daily news broadcasts.