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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The Minstrels

Hey There Lonely Girls

Merritone / Dub Store

Pure loveliness from 1967 — with an acappella version.

Hopeton Lewis

Rock-A-Shacka

Merritone / Dub Store

All-time rocksteady murder.
The flip’s killer, too. ‘I don’t want no trouble now, no, no, no.’

Hopeton Lewis

Cool Collie

Merritone / Dub Store

Trilbies off to the herb superb — with a rocking backbeat, from 1966.
Nice bass on the flip, too — strong, minor-key storybook-soul.

The Man X

It Won't Come Easy

Impact! / Only Roots

Overproof sufferers by Sweeney Williams, with the Wailers Band.

Anthony Selassie

Variety

Rhythem Track / Digikiller

Late-eighties Callo Collins production of the Youth Promotion cohort.

Courtney Melody

Watching You

Chopper / Digikiller

Rasta Cowboy excursion.

Alton Black

Reunited

Chopper / Digikiller

On the Chopper version of Billie Jean.

Big Youth

Give Thanks

Negusa Nagast

The great deejay’s deliriously authoritative toast of Satta.
‘Why do the heathen rage? Let us break their bands asunder.’

Roland Alphonso

Song For My Father

Pyramid

Crucial version of the Horace; with a nice minor-key flip.

King Kong

Agony And Pain

Jah All Mighty / Digikiller

Celebrated late-eighties soundboy business — another of his very best, revived at last.

Montgomery

Sensimela

Jah Life Time / Digikiller

Ace, quirky one-away — effervescent singing on a bubbling rhythm, with ticking drums and deft keyboard interjections.

King Kong

Come Down

Jah All Mighty / Digikiller

Highly recommended — previously unreleased digi fire from the same sessions and mould as He Was A Friend.

The Renegades

Knocking On My Door

Merritone / Dub Store

The fledgling Wailing Souls, rocking steady but broken-hearted in 1966; backed with the perfect ska antidote, a previously-unreleased Hopeton Lewis pick-me-up.

The Tartans

I'm Ready

Merritone / Dub Store

Bumping rocksteady — with a gospel, Toots flavour to the A; a little more booting rhythm and blues to the flip.

Henry Buckley

Thank You Girl

Merritone / Dub Store

1966 rocksteady, elegantly heartfelt as Nat King Cole.

Bobby Ellis

Step Softly

Crystal / Dub Store

The greatest rocksteady instrumental of them all.
Haughtily cool and deadly; a stepping razor of a tune. (Just ask the ODB.)
Back in after a long absence. Hail the rebel sound.

Derrick Harriott

Reach Out I'll Be There

Crystal / Dub Store

Juggernaut version of the Four Tops, with Ike Bennett at the organ leading Ilya Kuryakin on the flip.

Tommy Sheakspear

Rolling Stone

Roosevelt

John Steele

Selassie On His White Horse

Jammy's

The Renegades

You've Lost The Love

Merritone / Dub Store

Henry Buckley

I'd Like To Know

Merritone / Dub Store

The Tartans

Don't Take That Train

Merritone / Dub Store

Livingstone Hurlock

Natty Become A Hurricane

Black Fighting Heritage / Digikiller

Trevor Byfield

Love Me Version

Fox Fire / Digikiller

A contender for the heaviest dub of all time.
When the Rootical Dubber had a go at reissuing Trevor Byfield and co, many years ago, he omitted this, saying it was just too awesome to mess with.

Trevor Byfield

Burning Bush

Fox Fire / Digikiller

Heavy roots; thumping dub. Turns out that Moses was being discreet.

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