Honest Jon's
278 Portobello Road
London
W10 5TE
England

Monday-Saturday 10 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

Honest Jon's
Unit 115
Lower Stable Street
Coal Drops Yard
London
N1C 4DR

Monday-Saturday 11 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

+44(0)208 969 9822 mail@honestjons.com

Established 1974.

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Robert Lee

Real Ting

Tuff Scout

Cornell Campbell

Destiny

Tuff Scout

Robert Emmanuel

Fashion Dread

Tuff Scout

Flick Wilson

Last Night

Things I've Been Through / Digikiller

Moody, heavy lovers, detourned by FW’s full-throated falsetto. Ace.

Tribe Of Colin

Was Gwan Tell Dem II

R=A+7=4

Cornell Campbell

Hypocrites

Tuff Scout

Bump And The Soul Stompers

I Can Remember

Numero

Invoking The Delfonics’ Do You Remember, and flipping its melody the other way around. Recorded at the Damon Studios in Kansas City (owned by Victor Damon, inventor of the spring reverb).

The Blues Busters

Soon You'll Be Gone

Sunshine / Dub Store

Pablo Moses

We Should Be In Angola

Rebirth

Lloyd 'Scunna' Ruddock

Genuine Way

Wambesi

Luminously upful mid-seventies roots.
Scunna’s bro King Tubby dishes up a heavy dub.
Lovely record.

The Royals

Peace And Love

Wambesi

Albert Malawi

Jah Is Sweet

Negus Music / Digikiller

Solid early-eighties Channel One, tooled to rock a dance, and till now played exclusively on dubplate by Jahlovemuzik.

Clive Wilson & The Skatalites

One Ska, One Ounce Of Weed, One Beer

Federal / Dub Store

Previously a super-scarce JA blank. Hail the almighty Don D’s scorching solo — flashing a split-second premonition of Rico on Message To You, Rudy.

Don Drummond

One Beer, One Scotch, One Bourbon (Take 1)

Federal / Dub Store

Two terrific, previously unreleased excursions on the Amos Milburn.
The trombone holds it down like Giant Haystacks, but that’s a tenor saxophone solo.
Lovely stuff.

Cornell Campbell

Nothing Don't Come Easy

Jammy's / Dub Store

Rough! Same rhythm as Frankie Paul’s Leave It To Me. Moody, inimitable, brilliant Jammys, with inspirational singing by the great CC.

Rub A Dub Rebels

Guiding Shield

Action

Rub A Dub Rebels

Africa

Action

Wholesome digi-roots bumper from 1990; rinsed by Shaka in the day.

The Gaylettes

If You Can't Be Good

Merritone / Dub Store

Henry Buckley

You Never Could Be True

Merritone / Dub Store

The Paragons

I Wanna Be With You

Treasure Isle / Far East

The Treasure Isle masterwork… plus a sweetly rocking Tommy McCook.

Beverley Williams

Sufferation

Shaka

Tough mid-seventies steppers from the US, in tow to Johnny Clarke. A one-away for Bev; nothing to do with Jah Shaka (except he’d run it).
Rough dub, too.

If A Song Could Be Freedom

Organized Sounds Of Resistance

Textual

Donovan Carless

Be Thankful For What You Got

Big M

Peerless cover of the soul classic — recorded at Randy’s in 1974 with Fully Fullwood, Chinna Smith, Tony Chin, Santa Davis… and Errol T at the controls.
It’s no surprise that Carless is a soul boy, into Jerry Butler and The Dells back then; one half of the Little Roys, when they cut Bongo Nyah for Lloyd Daley.
Crucial bunny.

Gil Scott-Heron

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 7

BGP

Originals

Got To Be Iry

Upsetter

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