Invigorating shots of spiritual jazz — the business, no sugar, no additives — in two versions from 1970, for tenor saxophone and space organ. Lovely artwork by Dick Higgins.
Fab.

Killer Jimmy Radway rhythm, brilliantly voiced.

Roots anthem, produced by Tubby for Bunny Lee.

The class Spinners version for Lloyd Charmers, as featured on Darker Than Blue.

Recorded after eighteen months in prison for possession of a little cannabis, here is the definitive cut of the knockout song Creator revisited for the Upsetter.
Profound, stoic reasoning on a tough rhythm, with the wings of a dove. Wailing backing vocals, blurts of organ, burning horns; singing schooled by Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole.
On the flip, Come Down 68 puts us back behind behind bars, at year-end, looking forward to getting out. ‘Come down, evening, come down, night. Let me see that morning light.’

The finest of his dancehall interventions with the Roots Radics, as the eighties progressed. This is taut and simple, tough and atmospheric, triumphant.

The Stepping Razor’s inspired melodica cut of Armagideon has the dreadest atmosphere of the lot.

Superb roots, tough dub. A dilly from Tilly. Larry nuh tarry.

Stone classic disco heaven; and a scarcely known, tripping, randy little Fuqua of an instrumental version of I Need Somebody, on the flip.
The first reissue of these two superb 7’ edits since back in the day.

Brilliant, heavyweight, daft-as-a-brush Niney. Genius.