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Cecil 'Guitar' Smith - 'Lead On Jah Jah' on the Horse label. The Dub can be found on Tubby's Dub Explosion
Wonderful roaring guitar. Pity I've never been able to find anything else by him

Ijahman Levi - 'Jah Heavy Load' on Haile I Hymn

more anon........ )

Back in the mid-70's, my rock friends would listen when I played Dadawah's Peace and Love lp. Late night deep roots psychedelia.

Chinna is my favorite and this album is a lesson of reggae guitar:
http://www.roots-archives.com/release/1219

Keep Irie

Not sure if we're talking mainly about Chinna style rolling & strumming guitar,,,if so, that stuff is gold in Reggae.

But when it comes to over-the-top, rock & roll style guitar being stuffed into a song - that vibe doesn't sound natural in Reggae music.

That's how I see it, or hear it anyways...

Aswad "Rebel Soul" from the debut Aswad album
and most of the rest of the album

I know we are not talking about "rolling & strumming" style, but that's my vision of what reggae guitar should always be. It sounds so nice...

Keep Irie

Uhuru - ahh, nice to see another strumming and rolling fan...rock on brother

- Junior Marvin on the Burning Spear's LP Hail H.I.M. (1980), especially on "Cry Blood Africa", like we say, it kill me everytime!
- Al Anderson on Zion Train, Uprising, Bob Marley and The Wailers, (and he is better in Live in Dortmund, Germany).
But the Master is ("dixit" Mr. Marley): Ernest Ranglin, at Studio One, of course.

Back in the 70´s,when i started listening to Reggae, I also prefered rock riffs f.e.Inner Circle´s New Age Music ´but my favorite album for a while was by Scandinavian Jazz Guitarist Jukka Tolonen goes Reggae in 1982 "In A This Year Time".Nowadays I prefer Ernest Ranglin especially on Jimmy Cliff In Concert of 1976.
Greetings

I'm the lead guitarist on the lead on Jah Jah single.
I'm working on a new album to be released in spring 2009. It will feature more roots and rock themes.

Cecil Guitar Smith