Johnny Clarke
Satisfaction (LP) [ Radiation Roots / LP - released 28/Apr/2017 ] Tenor singer Johnny Clarke had many false starts in his youthful days. Hanging around Studio One as a schoolboy with Jacob Miller, Clarke was supposed to record material written for him by Bob Andy, but somehow never made the grade. His 1973 debut... |
Linval Thompson
Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks [ Radiation Roots / CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Distinctive tenor singer Linval Thompson honed his singing craft in his formative years, growing in the west Kingston ghetto of Three Mile, where he was associated with Dennis Brown, Johnnie Clarke and Al Campbell. A subsequent move to New York... |
Linval Thompson
Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks (LP) [ Radiation Roots / LP - released 12/May/2017 ] Distinctive tenor singer Linval Thompson honed his singing craft in his formative years, growing in the west Kingston ghetto of Three Mile, where he was associated with Dennis Brown, Johnnie Clarke and Al Campbell. A subsequent move to New York... |
Max Romeo
A Dream (LP) [ Radiation Roots / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Maxie Livingston Smith, aka Max Romeo, got his start in reggae roots with soul-inspired harmony group The Emotions and, like so much young talent, bounced from one place to another, trying to find a foothold until he achieved international notoriety... |
The Paragons
Return [ Radiation Roots / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] One of the most important harmony groups in the entirety of Jamaican music, the Paragons have a long and complicated history. First formed in the ska years by Bob Andy and Tyrone Evans as the duo of Andy and Ronnie, the group soon expanded to a... |
Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators
King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators At Dub Station [ Radiation Roots / CD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook is rightly considered a giant of Jamaican music. Chosen by Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd to be leader of the Skatalites in the early 1960s, he went on to become the chief exponent of rock steady as leader of the... |
Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators
King Tubby Meets The Aggrovators At Dub Station (LP) [ Radiation Roots LP / LP - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook is rightly considered a giant of Jamaican music. Chosen by Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd to be leader of the Skatalites in the early 1960s, he went on to become the chief exponent of rock steady as leader of the... |