One-sided promo.
Frightened… Rebellious Jukebox… Industrial Estate (Yeah Yeah)... Futures And Pasts…
New Face In Hell… Pay Your Rates… Container Drivers… English Scheme… Gramme Friday…
Leave The Capitol… Prole Art Threat…
The six tracks comprising the original 10” plus their contemporaneous session for John Peel in March 1981.
Vocal duo Albert Bailey and Clifton Howell emerged from the trio The Officials. The Studio One 7” Ten Years Ago is them; also the stone-killer Babylonians, with Niney. Lee Perry re-named them The Ark. Here they are with Ossie Hibbert at Channel One… wicked, propulsive, vocal-harmony roots, with dazzling drumming, and a Shaka-missile of a dub, featuring Dean Fraser. Crucial bunny.
Thoroughly entertaining downhome blues, intricate ragtime, hokum and instrumental guitar stomps.
More than a hundred recordings — including fourteen previously unreleased tracks, and two radio shows from 1941 — housed in a hardbound 12-inch album, with a 140-page book of essays and rare photos.