Studio One - Roots

Mint 2021 (2xLP)

• 1. The Cyclones With Count Ossie – Meditation
  
  
• 2. Cornell Campbell & The Brentford Rockers – Natty Don't Go
  
  
• 3. Freddy Mcgregor With The Sound Dimension – Africa Here I Come
  
  
• 4. Bunny & Skitter – Lumumbo
  
  
• 5. Willie Williams & The All Stars – Addis A Baba
  
  
• 6. L.Crosdale With Drummond Bago & the Rebel Group – Set Me Free
  
  
• 7. Leroy Wallace & The New Establishment – Far Beyond
  
  
• 8. Lennie Hibbert – More Creation
  
  
• 9. Alton Ellis & The Sound Dimension – Blackish White
  
  
• 10. Winston Jarrett & The Sound Dimension – Fear Not
  
  
• 11. Devon Russell – Drum Song
  
  
• 12. The Gaylads – Africa
  
  
• 13. Black Brothers & The New Establishment – School Children
  
  
• 14. Linton Cooper & The Brentford Disco Set – You'll Get Your Pay
  
  
• 15. Sound Dimension – Congo Rock
  
  
• 16. Zoot Simms – African Challenge

Studio One Roots set the standard for Soul Jazz Records’ long-standing series of Studio One collections and features many of the classic artists from Clement 'Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s mighty roster of reggae.

This album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining crack-session men groups of Jamaican reggae history - The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. As ever the album is filled with a mixture of seminal cuts and super-rarities from the vast vaults of 13 Brentford Road.

Stand-out tracks include Alton Ellis’s Blackish White, a surreal and powerful Afro-centric dream, Count Ossie Nyabinghi and Rastafarian drummers genre-defying interpretation of Booker T and The MGs ‘Meditation’, Willie Williams awe-inspiring versioning of the Skatalites' seminal Rastafari anthem Addis Ababa and many, many more.