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Honest Jon's
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Lower Stable Street
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London
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Monday-Saturday 11 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

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Gregory Isaacs

In Person

Doctor Bird

Gregory Isaacs

Slum In Dub

Burning Sounds

Tight, classy dubs of the Revolutionaries rhythms behind Cool Ruler killers like Black A Kill Black and Uncle Joe. Classic Jammys.

Gregory Isaacs

Rock On

Observer / Jah Fingers

Total murder!
A stealth-weapon version of the classic tune — same sublime Gregory, plus fatter-than-your-mama trombone by Vin Gordon, and evilous Niney dub.
Dennis Brown and Dillinger incinerate the B-side, too… Jah Is Watching / Flat Foot Hustling.
Unmissable.

Gregory Isaacs

Warning

Dub Store

A master-class in digikal dread, by the Cool Ruler and King Tubby.
Swingeing Firehouse rhythms, expertly dubwise, with driving, tumping bass, and the burning horns of Dean Fraser and Vin Gordon. Utterly masterful singing.
The overall mood is foreboding, sombre and distressed. ‘Your trouble wanna trouble you,’ warns Gregory. ‘War in the morning, war in the evening.’ ‘Everyone is wondering who will be next.’
The gist is the toll of everyday living — paranoia and alienation, loneliness and heartbreak, drugs and violence — and the gravitational pull of prison, so it’s great to see the emblematic art-work of the original UK issue, by the aptly-named Serious Business, back again. (We miss the Rudy Gone Whaling typo of an old bootleg, still.)
Typically dapper, trash-and-ready reissue by Dub Store in Tokyo, with ace sound, handsomely sleeved (though the tracks are listed in the wrong order).
Masterworks like Long Sentence, Once A Man — giant-slaying Fade Away excursion — and Badness.
Hotly recommended.

Gregory Isaacs

Steal A Little Love

Jammy's / Dub Store

Gregory Isaacs

Nobody Knows

Dug Out

Just like cream-of-the-crop digi Tubbys. From the New Dance album sessions in 1988, with the Firehouse Crew. Mixed by Leroy ‘Fatman’ Thompson — formerly apprenticed to the King, en route to Jammys — and produced by Bunny Gemini and Tristan Palma. Gregory is desolate and compelling… and the dub is murder.

Gregory Isaacs

Temporary Lover

Dug Out

Masterful Gregory from 1997, sounding spooked and hunted over a juddering, propulsive Music Works rhythm, fulgent and full-on, with deep, pounding bass, clattering percussion, parping horns, classy backing vocals and harp starbursts… top-notch Gussies.
Two extended vocal versions, and two dubs, all quite different.
Bimmety bim bim.

Gregory Isaacs

Give A Little Love

Jah Fingers

Gregory Isaacs

False Evidence

Taxi

Gregory Isaacs

Mr Isaacs

VP

Gregory Isaacs

Never Be Ungrateful

Love

Gregory Isaacs

The Best Of Gregory Isaacs

Only Roots

Gregory Isaacs

The Best Of Gregory Isaacs Volume 2

Only Roots

Mid-seventies Alvin Ranglin productions — an original LP, not a compilation — with the Revolutionaries deep in the groove, Sylvan Morris from Studio One at the controls, the Tamlins on backing vocals, and Deadly Headley and co chipping in tough brass.
Top Gregory, with classics like Jailer and Border.

Gregory Isaacs

Showcase

Taxi

Gregory Isaacs

Hard Drugs

Tappa

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Gregory Isaacs

Tune In

African Museum

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Gregory Isaacs

Cop And The Convict

Tuff Metric

Gregory Isaacs

My Heart Is Bleeding

Super Power

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Gregory Isaacs

Chunnie You Are The Number One

GG Records

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Gregory Isaacs

Drifting Away

African Museum

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Gregory Isaacs

Night Nurse

Junie

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Gregory Isaacs

Storm

Digital-B

Gregory Isaacs

Close Friends

Digital-B

Gregory Isaacs

Champion Bubbler

Capricorn International

Gregory Isaacs

Don't Dis The Dance

JR

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