VA – Studio One Roots (Vinyl)

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

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

This album has been fully digitally remastered, analog cut and packaged complete with the following:
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.

2 x Vinyl, Limited Edition, Reissue, Blue

Tracklist:
The Cyclones With Count Ossie Meditation
Cornell Campbell W/ The Brentford Rockers Natty Don’t Go
Freddie McGregor W/ The Sound Dimension Africa Here I Come
Bunnie & Skitter Lumumbo
Willie Williams W/ The All Stars Addis A Baba
L Crosdale W/ Drum Bago & The Rebel Group Set Me Free
Leroy Wallace W/ The New Establishment Far Beyond
Lennie Hibbert More Creation
Alton Ellis W/ The Sound Dimension Blackish White
Winston Jarrett W/ The Sound Dimension Fear Not
Devon ‘Soul’ Russell* Drum Song
The Gaylads Africa
Black Brothers W/ The New Establishment School Children
Linton Cooper W/ The Brentford Disco Set You’ll Get Your Pay
Sound Dimension Congo Rock
Zoot Simms African Challenge