i want tips for old roots bands

[Fabroots]

i'll try, thx

[mark]

I have to recommend Tougher than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music. Four great disks, from roots to rock steady to dancehall.

From what you've described, John Holt and the Paragons might be a good fit.

[Rockers Soundsystem]

Augustus Pablo, Jacob Miller, Hugh Mundell...

[mangefigues]

in the studio 1 catalogue, amongst hundreds of powerfull early roots tunes: the Bassies (AKA Bases, Basies, the Victors), especialy 2 tunes: River Jordan, Big Mistake (y can find em easily in some VA; HEAVY!!!

[cazevedo]

My station plays primarily old-time roots with over 2200 tracks in rotation (random play). Checkout the playlist:

http://www.azevedo.ca/scratch/i-list.htm

[arize_rootsman]

I PERFER
THE CHANNEL ONE REGGAE ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 & 2, ITS PURE PACKD WITH RHYTHMS FROM THE MIGHT REVOLUTIONARIES AND ROOTS RADICS AWESOME RHYTHMS IN THAT COMPILATION.

[Fabroots]

Thx people

[Jim]

The roots of reggae-The original complete grounation-by Count Ossie and The mystic revelation of rastafari aint pure roots(98') but it oughta be. If u wanna go pure roots, listen to Curtis Mayfield and Otis Redding, couple it up with merenge and a little bit of salsa, calypso and blues(Wailers, Dennis Brown, The Maytals, all of em where rooted in both Curtis and Otis, Ghetto Child and A Change is Gonna Come is a trip). Compay Segundo for instance(salsa) is a great example of the positive flow outside the reggae crypt. Louis Armstrong...

[Chaz]

Try Freddie Mckay's "Lonely Man" album.

[sean]

nobody recall the great gregory isaacs whose oldest tracks go back to the late 60s and are roots definitely...classics such as extra classic, thief a man, etc,,,are all early 70s just like the crazily good jailer and the border,,great stuff this