REGGAE NEWS - ALBUM RELEASES
Heartbeat Records presents Chicken Scratch Deluxe Edition
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on November 02 2007 at 23:35
Category : Album Releases
Lee “Scratch” Perry is one of the most important musical figures of the 20th Century and a unique entity whose works have forever changed the way we think about recorded sound. Perry is rightly hailed as a true originator through the sonic innovations he pioneered at his legendary Black Ark studio during the late 1970s. However, few have heard the incredible first set of recordings he made in the ska years at Studio One during the early to mid 1960s. We are particularly pleased to now present Chicken Scratch Deluxe Edition with a number of bonus tracks from the same era and, for the first time on CD, the original single mixes of 13 of these ska scorchers.
- Feel Like Jumping 2:28 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Chicken Scratch 2:50
- Please Don’t Go Lee Perry & the Soulettes 3:12 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Solid as a Rock 2:40
- By Saint Peter Lee Perry & the Soulettes 2:31 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Tackoo 2:09
- Roast Duck Lee Perry & the Dynamites 2:32
- Hand to Hand Lee Perry & the Wailers 2:25 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Gumma Lee “King Scratch” Perry & the Dynamites 1:58 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Rape Bait aka Jane Ann and the Pumpkin 1:53 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Just Keep It Up 2:49 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Open Up (Cook Book) aka Puss in Bag Lee “King” Perry 2:47 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Mother in Law 3:13 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Madhead 2:52 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Help the Weak Lee “King” Perry 2:38 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Cannot Wrong (And Get Right) 2:23 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- John Tom Lee Perry & the Dynamites 2:35 (Original single mix, previously unreleased on CD)
- Run Rudie Run Lee “King” Perry & the Gaylads 2:50
Heartbeat 116 617 839-2 (HB 339)
Street Date: January 29, 2008
source : roots-archives.com
30-year gospel roots dug up
Posted by
on October 28 2007 at 08:53
Category : Album Releases
Ernie Smith has sung of sombre Tears on My Pillow and he has sung of the delightful Pitta Patta of raindrops coming down. He has rejoiced that Life is Just For Living and he has taken his stance against the fight for Power and the Glory.
What many may not know, though, is that over 30 years ago he sang an entire album for the Lord . And, soon enough, some of the tracks from the 1975 I'll Sing for Jesus will be re-released, along with some new songs in the same spiritual vein.
"I am working on a gospel project that will include some new songs and some songs I did on an album I'll Sing for Jesus in 1975," Smith told The Sunday Gleaner.
"We are in the studio with Fab Five, doing some of the new songs," he said.
No release date has been set, though, as Smith says "we're just going to take our time and do it".
What has been released, though, is his Jamaican take on Brook Benton's Rainy Night in Georgia, which Ernie Smith has ammended to become Deadly Nights in Kingston. Smith told The Sunday Gleaner that it is a song he performed in its original format for may years and it was a melody he loved.
As for the tale his version tells, of a man at a bus depot waiting to get home, the police leaving and heavy action in the park after that, Smith says it is "purely fiction".
MC
source : jamaica-gleaner.com
Rolling Steady on blue vinyl
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on October 26 2007 at 17:28
Category : Album Releases
Good news for all you vinyl fans out there. Motion Records are manufacturing a limited run of their new Skatalites release "Rolling Steady - The 1983 Music Mountain Sessions" on blue vinyl.
It should be ready in a week or two. If this is successful Motion Records will consider a run of King Tubby Meets Jacob Miller on vinyl as well.
Meanwhile all the songs are also available on iTunes (and all the other digital platforms) as downloads.
You can also read the review of this great album in our review section
source : roots archives
motion website : motionrecords.com
2 Greensleeves releases delayed
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on October 13 2007 at 15:38
Category : Album Releases
Greensleeves has delayed their Gussie Clarke and Junior Murvin releases. Gussie Clarkes's Greensleeves 12'' Rulers will be available on October 23rd and Junior Murvin's Muggers In The Street on November 5th.
source : roots archives
greensleeves website : greensleeves.net
Silver Kamel next release
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on October 02 2007 at 20:16
Category : Album Releases
After releasing Phillip Fraser's 'Dancing Time' on September 15th, Silver Kamel Audio is putting the finishing touches to the third CD in the Roots Party series, Roots Rockers Party (SKCD016). No release date has been announced yet.
source : roots archives
silver kamel audio website : silverkamelaudio.com
Greensleeves October releases
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on October 01 2007 at 15:26
Category : Album Releases
5 albums will be released by Greensleeves Records in October :
- VA - One Drop Anthems 2007 (8 Oct) with a DVD bonus disc including video clips
- Gussie Clarke - 12" Rulers (8 Oct)
- Junior Murvin - Muggers In The Street (8 Oct)
- VA - Dancehall Anthems 2007 (22 Oct)
- Ras Shiloh - Only King Selassie (22 Oct)
source : roots archives
greensleeves website : greensleeves.net
General Echo - Teacher Fe Di Class delayed
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on September 29 2007 at 22:39
Category : Album Releases
Equalizer Records (the new Steve Barrow record company) has delayed the General Echo CD release to October 15th. The LP release should come a few weeks later, in November most probably
source : roots archives
Next Soul Jazz Records release
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on September 29 2007 at 22:39
Category : Album Releases
The next Soul Jazz Records reggae reissue will be a second volume to Sound Dimension - Jamaica Soul Shake. It should be released on November 5th.
source : roots archives
soul jazz website : souljazzrecords.co.uk
