Word from Only Roots: ‘Killer Dub album produced by Ranking Joe circa 1979 / 1980 with the Roots Radics. Released for the first time on CD in 1999. Some copies were pressed by Jammyland (USA) on vinyl in 2001 but without a sleeve. We have a limited stock of this vinyl for which we made a sleeve. Hand-printed, the appearance of the sleeve may vary.’

Previously unreleased, unmissable dubwise mixes.

Likely recorded in Chicago around 1956; originally released on Saturn. Ra is co-composer of both sides; it could be him playing the harmonium.
‘I had two main vocal groups at the time,’ Ra once recalled. ‘One was called the Cosmic Echoes. And the Cosmic Rays, too. It was around the same time that John Gilmore joined the band. I saw the possibility that they could be really great so I began to coach them; they were connected with a barber shop, but I taught them other things.’ ‘We’d go down to the barber shops and rehearse some groups,’ added John Gilmore. ‘Sun Ra had them singin’ some beautiful stuff. I think he probably was saving them from themselves. He heard them, heard their potential, snatched them off the street, and started making them do something constructive.’

Earl Morgan and Barry Llewellyn joined by Naggo Morris in 1978, with the genius engineer Sylvan Morris and the mighty Niney the Observer at the controls, and a crack band featuring Sly Dunbar. Every Day Life and Mr. Do Over Man Song are crucial, tip-top Heptones.