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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Delano Stewart

Rocking Sensation

Gay Feet / Dub Store

Perfect uptempo rock steady from the Gaylad (copping a little British Invasion, a bit late in the day). The flip carries the swing, though: a magnificent horns cut to Delano’s Tell Me Baby, by The Gaysters.

The Termites

Breaking Up

Treasure Isle / Far East

No less than an alternate take of the almighty rocksteady classic from 1968. Backed with a Tommy McCook instrumental featuring organist Winston Wright.

Keith Hudson

Darkest Night On A Wet Looking Road

Mafia / Dub Store

Scorcher. One megaton of Hudson dread; pure reggae noir.
The mix is quite different to Flesh Of My Skin.
Definitively presented at last (after some dire bootlegs), by Dub Store in Tokyo.

Cash Money

Seeking

Rain & Shine

Private-press gospel boogie from Michigan band Cash Money, featuring full brass and vocal harmony. Plus some ace, synthy, slap-bass, choral gospel soul from Ricky Womack in 1990, in the tradition of the great DJ Rogers.

The Kingstonians

Hold Down

Move & Groove / Dub Store

The King James Version

He's Forever (Amen)

Soul Kitchen

Stranger Cole

Thinking Of The Future

Treasure Isle

Eric Monty Morris

Old King Cole

Duke Reid's / Far East

A double-header of booting, irresistible JA rhythm and blues.

Horace Andy

Skylarking / Sky Rhythm

Studio One / Soul Jazz

King Shark

Escape By Night

Montego / Common Ground

The Kingstonians

Sufferer 7"

Move & Groove / Dub Store

The Gaylads

Looking For A Girl

Links / Rock A Shacka

King Kong

Hold Your Prestige

Jah All Mighty / Digikiller

Characteristically masterful singjaying; duetting with himself, for added dancehall vibes. The message calls for self-respect to be tempered by humility… probably a bit rich coming from KK. Sick rhythm.

Vivian Jackson & The Prophets

Fire In Kingston

Prophets

Justin Hinds

Once A Man Twice A Child - Take 2

Peckings

Leroy King

Mash Down Babylon

Phase One

Freddie McKay

Mope & Cry

Top Ranking / Jah Fingers

The Three Tops

Do It Right (Soul Take)

Dutchess / Peckings

Al Campbell

Babylon

Peckings

A skittering, stop-start, dubwise, vintage rhythm — sounds like Family Man at Studio One — pulsating with submarine sonar.
Al Campbell lights it up 2025-style with a coolly defiant, denunciatory sufferers. Live, dubplate vibes, kicking off with a nod to his hosts in Shepherds Bush, and a quick Orthodox represent represent.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ‘Babylon them a criminal, Babylon them an animal, Babylon them a conman, Babylon them a ginal.’
Killer diller dub, too, with a stark, reedy dose of the Sugar Bellys.
Crucial bunny. Crunchy and tasty; proper underground vegetable business.
Bim.

Delton Screechie

Concrete Castle King

Roots Vibration

Althea And Donna

Up Town Top Ranking

Joe Gibbs / Reggae Fever

King Tubby

Rockers Almighty Dub

Clocktower

Outstanding Tubbys.

King Tubby

The Roots Of Dub

Greensleeves

Sir Coxsone Sound

King Of The Dub Rock

Tribes Man

Sir Coxsone Sound

King Of Dub Rock Part 2

Tribes Man

Including a killer mix of Homeward Bound, the Creation Steppers’ blazing update of The Skatalites’ Confucius; a heavy Spear and a heavier Fred Locks (with Reggae Reggae Sauce rocking the mic).

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