Your 3 favorite roots artists ever

[Reggaexx]

Bob Marley
Culture
The Meditations

[Chris Dupre]

I agree with Dreadrecords, my favorites change every couple of weeks as I discover more artists, right now it's:

1. Barry Brown
2. Cornell Campbell
3. Horace Andy

[grateful]

Burning Spear ~ He has got to be the most under rated artist in the history of music. I'd put Marcus Garvey right up there with Bitches Brew or Dark side of the moon as the greatest musical pieces ever created. The fact that he followed that up with over thirty more years of such soulful music is simply mind boggling. His musical genius is only surpassed by his spiritual passion.

Bob Marley and the Wailers ~ With a heavy emphasis on the 67-73 era. The creativity that came out of that era is simply awesome. When I first re-discovered Bob Marley through his earlier works (less than a year ago), I remember feeling like I had just discovered music for the first time. Having been practicing meditation for years, I was very grateful to have discovered such beautiful music that was also heavily spiritual in nature.

Black Uhuru ~ This is actually the first band that I play for others when turning them on to reggae. Incredible songwriting. Super tight rythym section. Passionate singing. And just an over all jammin band that seems to greatly please everyone that gives them a listen. The fact that their best albums came out in the eighties is even more impressive.

The fact that ANY good music came out of the eighties is impressive.

just kidding....I like Eek-a-Mouse's earlier stuff.

peace

[kenya youth]

There are so many to choose from but a few stand out including.THE ITALS,WAILING SOULS,DIAMONDS,CULTURE,JNR REID etc

[florent]

Today i'll go for this triplet:

twinkle brothers / jah shaka / mad professor

[tellmemore]

mr marley
dennis brown
johnny osbourne

[Brother Ignatius]

U Roy
The Gladiators
Johnny Osbourne

[todd]

sylford walker
max romeo
junior byles

[Max]

Barry Brown, Peter Broggs and Bim Sherman are my favourite singers from the old days.

[diego]

1.-burning spear
2.-peter tosh
3.-dennis brown

and respect for the man called Joseph "culture" Hill