Various Artists - Studio One Roots
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.
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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.
