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.

Danny Barker

Indian Red

Sinking City

Danny Barker

Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing

Sinking City

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 Uprising Maytone

Unchangeable Love

Rocking Time

Terrific excursion on the great Sleepy/Santic/Rockers Problems rhythm, by the Maytones’ Vernon Buckley, with a knockout dub.
Pure vibes. Bim.

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

Leroy King

Mash Down Babylon

Phase One

Gappy Ranks

Tribute To Nesta Marley

Peckings

Exuberant, celebratory, citational Gappy, over an original rhythm; plus a poised Miss Kjah on the flip, coolly making Ain’t That Loving You her own.

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

Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby

Dub Conference Volume 1

Survival Research

King Tubby

Rockers Almighty Dub

Clocktower

Outstanding Tubbys.

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