please recommend some Lovers Rock & Reggae history books for me!

[hans]

Between 1990 & somewhere 2005 Jet Star/Charm Records released Pure Lovers - totally 16 volumes (as far as I know) all filled with pretty good lovers rock tunes. Good value for money!

Blessup allready mentioned Klearview Harmonix.
They appeared on some Ariwa releases. Ariwa released some loversrock albums, for example Kofi (Black With Sugar), John McLean (Bowled Over), VA Breaking The Barriers Vol 1, 2 & 3 (with Klearview Harmonix), Intens.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tapirs/arilp.htm

[kofi333]

lots of them them.love the music form the late 70's to the early 80's. to the 90's.not sure where you can get concrete info to put up what you want.no detailed info...very sad it turn out this way,for the artist
talk about popular ones like the ones mentioined above and others like sandra cross,janet kay,carroll thomnpson,toyin adekale,donna marie,sylvia tella,michael gordon and the investigators,administrators,yvonne,douglas,paulette walker,paulette tajah,leroy mafia,trevor walters,karen dixon,vivian jones,victor romero evans,intense,tradition, and many more
then talk about the obscure group and artists like fenton smith,cheryl lucas,revelation,one blood,home t 4,love strucure,heptics,paulette hummingbird,tex johnson,beshara,instigators,sonia facey,black harmony,simplicity and lots of them.
hope something comes out in the future

[blessup]

Not to mention Kofi, Louisa Mark, Barry Boom, Peter Spence ad the list just goes on and on........

Many of the obscure goups mentioned above are indeed wicked!

[ras henry]

yes true man........wicked stuff they did.i keep discovering lots of those obscure stuff and the music just good.can't believe they never made it in those days....

[battez]

hey everyone - I just checked back heere... sorry!

WOW - amazing response, really grateful! So many artists I hadnt heard of and great info on the labels.

hans and kofi in particualr thank you for intersting info. I know a lot about the Ariwa stuff, much of the other stuff v cool news to me tho!

I will check Hunningale and Bitty (obv I know of him!) and these labels mentioned.

The fact there are few websites makes me feel more that I have to stay strong and pursue this project!

cheers

hope you are all having a cool Yule

Luke aka battez

[Shinan Irie]

My dream was to do a combination with the late great Jean Adebambo - she sings while I man DJ but that was not to be. Kinda surprised me that a few of the women in the lovers rock angle were of Nigerian parentage Jean Adebambo, Toyin Adekale, Sylvia Tella. WOW we did have something going for us. We are no terrorist just lovers rockists.
Peter Hunningale, Lloyd Brown, Roger Robin, John Mclean ( the Father), Vivian Jones,
Jah know de list endless.