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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

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Established 1974.

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Zenker Brothers

Mount Watz

Ilian Tape

The Durian Brothers Vs High Wolf

Disk

The Chosen Brothers

March Down Babylon

Wackies

‘Politics have failed.’
Stone-classic Bullwackies (as excursioned by Rhythm & Sound for Burial Mix), sensationally throwing in two unreleased dubs, newly extracted from the master reels. Both are equally unmissable but quite different, with contrasting effects: the second dub adds ninety seconds, including whip-dem spring reverb. Drawn from the Selective Showcase LP, the vocal mix is more open and dubwise than the Sing & Shout LP offering, with less keyboards.
Asked whether it should be mash or march, after some pondering Bullwackies replied: ‘That’s a good question.’

Chosen Brothers

Child of Slave

Wackies / Digikiller

Shackleton

The Other Side Of Devastation

Modern Obscure Music

Soul Brothers

East Man Ska

Studio One / Dub Store

Stone cold murder. Archetypal, slow-mo, eastern-sounds post-ska from Jackie Mittoo, Dizzy Moore, Roland Alphonso and co, around 1965.

African Brothers

Hold Tight

Demon

Soul Brothers

Freedom Sounds

Studio One / Dub Store

Dynamite, previously unissued rocksteady version of the monumental Skatalites scorcher from a few years earlier.

Soul Brothers

James Bond Girl

Muzik City / Dub Store

Rollicking, mid-sixties, post-Skatalites ska thriller, led by Bobby Ellis and Roland Alphonso, with slightly different soloing to the original release.
Backed with a charming, forsaken, rare Summertairs: ‘I love you, Errol… come back today… but not too late… Errol, my dear.’

Jackie Mittoo And The Soul Brothers

Do The Boogaloo

Supreme / Dub Store

Tough pan-Caribbean wig-out, complete with twanging guitar and characteristically hot organ; plus The Jamaicans’ lovely version of the Sam Cooke.

Soul Brothers

Shanty Town Curfew

Merritone / Dub Store

The Isley Brothers

Footsteps In The Dark

Epic

Linval Thompson

My Mother Seya

Big Style / Dub Style

A deadly, zonked Soul Syndicate excursion on Westbound Train, with Keith Hudson as the Fat Controller. Introducing a young LT — his first recording, he says — stylistically indebted to Dennis Brown.

African Brothers

How Many Man

Ital / Dub Store

Beautiful, heart-wrenching, anti-war roots.
Sublime singing, led by Tony Tuff, over the kind of rhythm you could run for hours.

Chester Randle & Soul Senders

Soul Brothers Testify

BGP

Fiery, head-banging deep funk by this Louisiana guitarist; originally out on Eddie ‘Goldband’ Shuler’s ANLA label, in 1967.

The Barrino Brothers

Just A Mistake

TCB / Kent

Holy grail Detroit funk recorded in 1969 for Dave Hamilton; backed with a tape-find Northern dancer.

African Brothers

How Long

Ital

Hamilton Brothers

Music Makes The World Go 'Round

Numero

The Exits

Another Sundown In Watts

Sir Graham / Kent

The Wallace Brothers

Soul, Soul And More Soul

Sims

Sanctified, southern soul — lost, crying, frank harmonising, and swaying horns and organ — recorded at FAME, Muscle Shoals, in 1964, by cousins Johnny Simon and Ervin Wallace from Atlanta. Lover’s Prayer is a scorcher.
The vinyl is a facsimile of the original LP (on Russell Sims’ Nashville label); the ‘Complete Sims Recordings’ CD from Kent adds ten more sides.

Mean Mothers

Independent Women's Blues, Volume 1

Rosetta

Acid Mothers Reynols

Vol. 2

Hive Mind

Contemporary psych legends Acid Mothers Temple and Reynolds collaborating in the studio in 2017. Improvisatory, shamanic, ecstatic, nuts.

Bitty McLean / Peckings Brothers

On Bond Street Dub

Peckings

Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers

Jungle Fire!

BGP

Their last Prestige, in 1970, trying out a more extended, jamming, funky style of boogaloo on Cloud Nine and a couple of Sonny Phillips’ tunes, out of five. The Pazant Brothers are in full effect on horns; jazz heroes like Seldon Powell and Bernard Purdie sit in.

The Pazant Brothers

Skunk Juice: Dirty Funk From The Big Apple

BGP

No-messing funk with whiffs of reefer, hooch and baize.
Eddie and Al Pazant came through with Lionel Hampton and Pucho. These are their locked-down, brassy, smoking, streetwise blends of R&B, soul, latin and jazz, from the late 1960s and early 70s.
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