VA - Studio One Roots (Orange Vinyl Edition)

Studio One Roots set the standard for Soul Jazz Records’ long-standing series and features many of the classic artists from Clement 'Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s mighty roster of reggae.

This album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining in-house groups of Jamaican reggae history - The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. The album is filled with a mixture of seminal cuts and super-rarities from the vast vaults of 13 Brentford Road.

Stand-out tracks include Alton Ellis’s ‘Blackish White’, a surreal and powerful Afro-centric dream, Count Ossie’s Rastafarian drummers’ genre-defying interpretation of Booker T and The MGs ‘Meditation’, Willie Williams awe-inspiring versioning of the Skatalites' seminal Rastafari anthem ‘Addis Ababa’ and many, many more.

Original sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley (author of When Reggae Was King), compiled by Mark Ainley (Honest Jons), high-quality Soul Jazz mastering, wicked images of Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on the cover, and a rare image of Clement Dodd and musicians inside the studio at Studio One on the full colour inner sleeves.

Vinyl 2LP - Orange

Tracklist:
01:     The Cyclones With Count Ossie – Meditation
02:     Cornell Campbell – Natty Don't Go
03:     Freddie Mcgregor – Africa Here I Come
04:     Bunnie & Skitter – Lumumbo
05:     Willie Williams – Addis A Baba
06:     L Crosdale – Set Me Free
07:     Leroy Wallace – Far Beyond
08:     Lennie Hibbert – More Creation
09:     Alton Ellis – Blackish White
10:     Winston Jarrett – Fear Not
11:     Devon Russell – Drum Song
12:     The Gaylads – Africa
13:     Black Brothers – School Children
14:     Linton Cooper – You'll Get Your Pay
15:     Sound Dimension – Congo Rock
16:     Zoot Simms – African Challenge