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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Anthony Selassie

Busy Body

Rhythem Track / Digikiller

Hue B

Everyday Thing

Tuff Scout

Two brilliant contemporary roots productions birthing Out On The Floor’s new imprint. Here, Tuff Rock aka East Londoner Mikey Roots masterminds a raw, luminous cut of Keith Goode’s Jah Jah Deliver Us.

Prince Far I

Armageddon

Cry Tuff

Prince Far I

Message From The King

Cry Tuff

With Culture.

The Maytones

Loving Reggae

GG / Dub Store

Prince Far I

Red Sea

Cry Tuff

The Minstrels

Hey There Lonely Girls

Merritone / Dub Store

Pure loveliness from 1967 — with an acappella version.

Anthony Selassie

Variety

Rhythem Track / Digikiller

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

The Maytals

Festival Song 1966 Bam-Bam

BMN / Dub Store

Beautiful mento sufferers for Ronnie Nasralla in 1966. ‘I am the man who fights for the right, not for the wrong.’
People say that’s the first deejay recording on the flip — the wonderful Lord Comic, and his cowboys. ‘Music is real sweet… For your dancing feet.’

Chockey Taylor

False Dread

High Note

Ras Ibuna

Pay Them Dues

Kadamawe

Soul Brothers

Shanty Town Curfew

Merritone / Dub Store

Alton Ellis

Cry Tough 7

Treasure Isle

The Maytals & Don Drummond

Coppa

Federal / Dub Store

Unmissable Maytals, in previously unreleased recordings from 1965.
Toots and co have this Coppa bang to rights — ‘Stop treating the people unkind’ — even before Don D boots him down the street and the hell out of Dodge.

Manuel B. Holcolm

I Stayed Away Too Long

Luv 'N Haight

Lyn Taitt And The Jets

Batman (Early Take)

Merritone / Dub Store

The Techniques

You Are My Everything

Techniques / Dub Store

Tony Tuff

Ram Dance Style

Vena / Dub Store

Soundboy vibes over a hard-driving, clattering rhythm.

Delroy Katt

Pray To The Father

Vena / Dub Store

Fatis digi.
Opening with a Dennis Brown feint, Katt whirls through vegetarianism, military repression, street crime and religious salvation.

The Maytones

Dig Away Di Money

GG / Dub Store

Alton Ellis

Cry Tough (Alternate Take)

Treasure Isle / Far East

Johnny Lytle

Selim

BGP

From 1964, this tribute to Miles Davis is the great vibes player’s crowning glory (even including his contribution to Roger Troutman’s Unlimited album). A swinging, modal classic, massive on the Dingwalls jazz-dance scene.

The Raincoats

Fairytale In The Supermarket

We Three

Rudy Thomas

Grand Father Bogle

Pressure Sounds

This rare roots outing by the lovers specialist is a sweet, heartfelt tribute to the great JA revolutionary. A Lloyd Parks production, with a proper dub.

Alton Ellis

All My Tears

Trojan / Far East

Two Duke Reids: hard-swinging, emotionally distressed rocksteady from Mr Soul Of Jamaica himself, down on his knees, hand on heart; and a terrific version of Gene Chandler’s Duke Of Earl on the flip.

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