Article Details

Article ID

LP-13473

Format

Artist

King Tubby

Title

Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub

Track list

Pos.	Artist	Title
1	King Tubby,Lee Perry	Blood Of Africa
2	King Tubby,Lee Perry	African Roots
3	King Tubby,Lee Perry	Raw Roots
4	King Tubby,Lee Perry	Wood Roots
5	King Tubby,Lee Perry	Luke Lane Rock
6	King Tubby,Lee Perry	People From The Grass Roots
7	King Tubby,Lee Perry	Crime Wave
8	King Tubby,Lee Perry	No Justice For The Poor
9	King Tubby,Lee Perry	300 Years At The Grass Roots
10	King Tubby,Lee Perry	King And The Upsetter At Spanish Town

Style(s)

Dub

Label

Studio 16

Producer

Winston Edwards

Country

GB - United Kingdom

Quality

m/m re

Remarks

This pressing is issued to celebrate the album's 45th Anniversary and has been fully remastered, the cover decorated with a golden rosette to that effect.
Seminal dub album produced by Winston Edwards. In 1974 Edwards left Jamaica to reside in the UK and through his strong connections with such reggae luminaries as Joe Gibbs, Lee Perry and King Tubby began to travel back and forth between London and Kingston (JA) to bring back recordings to issue on his Fay Music label here in the UK. In 1974 he released this seminal dub set. Contrary to the genius marketing device of pitching side one as the work of King Tubby at the mixing desk against side two, purporting to be mixed by Lee Perry at the Black Ark, the whole album appears in fact to have been mixed at Tubby's, while the rhythms were possibly built at Perry’s Ark and maybe Gibbs’ studio, but at this length memories are stretched. It is in any case a classic early Tubby’s dub album, musical, tuneful, heavy dubwise with Vin Gordon’s unique trombone lines well to the fore. Essential dub.

Price

EUR 13.98

Available

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