Excellent mid-seventies roots by this singer from Jack Ruby’s Hi Fi.

Scientist, Roots Radics.

Upful, infectious, buzzing dancehall vibes, flirtatiously mashing in lines from Sunfire’s boogie classic Young, Free & Single, over the same murderously bumping digi rhythm as Frankie Wilmott’s I Won’t Give Up.

Jubilant, party-hearty deejay cut to a thumping, body-rocking Jah Life do-over of the almighty Love Without Feeling rhythm. Sister Carol smashes it out of the dancehall and into the trees. The dub is knockout, too: raw drum & bass, in your face.
‘Mi have di potential an mi have di credential… in a dance hall, concert an’ rehearsal… mi will mash it, as per usual.’

All-time-classic Stalag excursion.

The legendary Ras Muffet tuffet from 1979, on Rasheda’s own imprint, from tape.
Shaka ju-ju, and cornerstone of the same lineage of Wolverhampton reggae as Actress’ Rainy Dub.

Killer roots detournement of Georgia Turner‘s dread blues about a New Orleans brothel, to the tune of a seventeenth-century English folk song, by way of Bob Dylan, Nina Simone and The Animals.
Bunny Gale revives another folk song on the flip — Dead Man’s Chest — via The Viceroys’ classic Studio One outing.
More crucial Keith Hudson runnings, courtesy of Dub Store in Tokyo.

On a bubblers rework of Mudie’s Love Without Feeling.

Killer Jimmy Radway rhythm, brilliantly voiced.

What a tune. A surging, early-seventies Soul Syndicate rhythm, with a fulgent trombone solo; and succinct, profound reasoning from the Don, at his very best, about thinking for yourself. Rebel music to live by; as clear as a bell. That’s a tough Sleepy on the flip, too. Killer.

Three the hard way — the Don at the mic, Roots Radics, Scientist — in the early eighties. Previously unreleased.