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i'll try, thx

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.

Augustus Pablo, Jacob Miller, Hugh Mundell...

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!!!

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

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.

Thx people

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...

Try Freddie Mckay's "Lonely Man" album.

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