TWO albums by Sugar Minott are scheduled for release in the next six months, according to his widow, Maxine Stowe.

In an interview with the Jamaica Observer, she said the songs are produced by Clement “Coxson” Dodd, and Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.

The albums are the first major projects to be released since Minott’s death in May 2010 at age 53.

Maxine Stowe

“His estate was under duress but all of that is kind of clearing up. We’ll be launching a website (sugarminott.com) soon with details,” said Stowe.

Some of Minott’s biggest hit songs were produced by Dodd and Sly and Robbie. Dodd, Stowe’s uncle, was behind the singer’s early success which came at his Studio One label in the late 1970’s.

Vanity, Mr DC and A House is Not A Home helped make Minott a force in the dancehall.

Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd

Sly and Robbie were on top of their game with the Taxi label when they linked with Minott in the mid-1980’s. They produced his ganja anthem Herbman Hustling, Devil Pickney and Tune In.

Sly and Robbie

Stowe said Minott recorded a fresh batch of songs for Dodd at his Brooklyn, New York studio in 2002, two years before the legendary producer died. The Sly and Robbie sessions were done in the 1990’s.

Lincoln “Sugar” Minott is a dancehall icon. At his Youth Promotions camp in Kingston, he helped nurture the careers of Junior Reid, Tenor Saw and Yami Bolo, and was among the genre’s pioneers in Japan.