{"product_id":"studio-one-roots-cd","title":"Studio One Roots [CD]","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSoul Jazz Records presents - Studio One Roots [CD]\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoul Jazz Records celebrate 25 years of working in partnership with Studio One with brand new editions of FIVE of their best-selling CLASSIC Studio One collections all released on limited-edition one-off pressing coloured double vinyl. \/\/ The new edition featured albums are Studio One Funk, Studio One Dub, Studio One Ska, Studio One Roots and Studio One Classics. \/\/ 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. \/\/ “The music of this compilation is of a rare, rare beauty and is essential to anyone's reggae collection.” All Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Cyclones with Count Ossie – Meditation 2. Cornell Campbell – Natty Don't Go 3. Freddie McGregor – Africa Here I Come 4. Bunnie \u0026amp; Skitter – Lumumbo 5. Willie Williams – Addis A Baba 6. L Crosdale – Set Me Free 7. Leroy Wallace – Far Beyond 8. Lennie Hibbert – More Creation 9. 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soul Jazz Records presents","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48655072035033,"sku":"5026328900568","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/0468\/3425\/files\/Soul-Jazz-Records-presents-Studio-One-Roots-_CD-690796478.jpg?v=1781113641","url":"https:\/\/drownedworldrecords.com\/products\/studio-one-roots-cd","provider":"Drowned World Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}