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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Don Drummond

Roll On Sweet Don

Rolando & Powie / Dub Store

Michael White

Cease Your Fire Arms

High Music / Dub Store

Two cuts from the LP High Times Present New Talents Ghetto Youths Showdown.
The MW is killer roots, not to be missed. You can hear Scientist in the dubwise mix.
With Clive ‘From Creation’ Hylton, on the flip.

Anthony Chambers

Jah Foundation

High Music / Dub Store

Terrific roots plodder from 1982, with Bertram Brown and King Tubby at the controls.

Sena

Natural Woman

Fam's / Dub Store

Aka Olive Grant — the same Senya who broke through at Randys in 1974 with Oh Jah Come and Children Of The Ghetto — with The Wailers backing.

Hersan And His City Slickers

Hersang Hop

Coxsone / Dub Store

Herman Sang (from the Jiving Juniors) was at Brentford Road from the start, in the late-1950s.
This is wistful organ-combo r&b — pre-ska — with some sweet calypso jazz on the flip.

Family Man & The Rebel Arms

Tribute To Y Mas Gan

Cobra / Dub Store

Deeply zonked and moody variation on The Abyssinians’ classic, with a wicked blend of kit and machine drums. Rough.

Billy Woods

Let Me Make You Happy

Inferno

The Crow

Your Autumn Of Tomorrow

Inner Ear

Orlando Kirkland

Hit Me Back

Pressure Sounds

Brimstone

Back Weh

Fam's / Dub Store

London crew formed in the late seventies by Gus Phillips from Sierra Leone and Dominican Sam Jones. Nurtured by Grove Music; same family tree as Aswad. Just around the corner from Honest Jon’s in Ladbroke Grove, guitarist Peter Harris went on to set up the Kickin label (which put out Shut Up And Dance, Aaron Carl and Blaze).

Al Kenlock

Tell It To Jah Nation

High Music / Dub Store

Heavy, heavy early-eighties roots, mixed by King Tubby.

Lionel Benjamin

Melodie

Pepite

Max Romeo

If Them Ever

Wisdom

Dennis Alcapone

Mava

Impact!

Junior Brammer

Take It Easy

Jah Life

A kind of Dennis Brown / Studio One cut-up. Written by Junior Brammer and Jah Life, according to the label. Talk about taking it easy.

Gregory Isaacs

Steal A Little Love

Jammy's / Dub Store

Al Campbell

Don't Take Your Gun To Town

Jammy's / Dub Store

Pad Anthony

Got To Be Strong

Jammy's / Dub Store

Tinga Stewart

No Drugs

Jammy's / Dub Store

Willie Tee

First Taste Of Hurt

Gatur

Lee Perry

Cow Thief Skank

Wizzdom

Stupefying Upsetters genius — splicing together the rhythms of Better Days and Musical Transplant like Doctor Funkenstein himself, whilst Charlie Ace barks at Dinah the missus to get out of bed and pass him his trousers and an axe, there’s a cow-thief in the garden, needs his fingers chopped off.

The Melodians

Let's Join Together

Treasure Isle

Carlton Livingston

Call Of The Rasta Man

Jah Life

Johnny & The Attractions

The Call Of The Drums

Gay Feet / Dub Store

Total murder.
With a precious instrumental version.

The Harmonizers

Go Back Home

Gay Feet / Dub Store

Top-notch, super-soulful rocksteady.
With an alternate take.

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