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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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.

Clive Matthews

Live Not For Vanity

Fox Fire / Digikiller

Top-notch roots; and another great Vassell-Williams dub.

Junior Soul

The Hustler

Crystal / Dub Store

Shabba Ranks

Build Some Bridges Instead

Two Friends

Tell them, Shabba.

Leroy Gibbons

Hold It Down

Two Friends

Brian And Tony Gold

Can You

Two Friends

Moving, skilfully epistolary song-writing from inside the belly of Apartheid.
Killer rhythm, to boot.

Colin Potter

I Couldn't Agree...

Sacred Summits

Two tracks originally self-released in 1981: abrasive post-punk-come-proto-industrial, with vocals, guitar, programmed drums and synths. The first in a series of CP revives promised by Sacred Summits for 2014.

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