VA / Soul Jazz Records Presents - STUDIO ONE ROOTS [New card wallet CD edition]

Format: CD 
Catalogue No.: SJRCD56B
Barcode: 5026328900568
Release Date: 05 Jun 2026
Genre: Reggae

 Soul Jazz Records celebrate 25 years of working in partnership with Studio One with brand new editions of five of their best-selling classic Studio One collections, released as special edition card wallet CD (where applicable) and one-off pressing coloured double vinyl editions.
 ‘Studio One Roots’ set the standard for Soul Jazz Records’ long-standing series and features many of the classic artists from Clement “Sir Coxsone” Dodd’s mighty roster of reggae.
 This album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining in-house groups of Jamaican reggae history - The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. The album is filled with a mixture of seminal cuts and super-rarities from the vast vaults of 13 Brentford Road.
 Stand-out tracks include Alton Ellis’s ‘Blackish White’, a surreal and powerful Afro-centric dream, Count Ossie’s Rastafarian drummers’ genre-defying interpretation of Booker T and The MGs ‘Meditation’, Willie Williams awe-inspiring versioning of The Skatalites’ seminal Rastafari anthem ‘Addis Ababa’ and many, many more.
 Original sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley (author of ‘When Reggae Was King’), compiled by Mark Ainley (Honest Jons), high-quality Soul Jazz mastering, wicked images of Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on the cover, and a rare image of Clement Dodd and musicians inside the studio at Studio One on the full colour inner sleeves.
 Double LP pressed onto Orange vinyl.
 “The music of this compilation is of a rare, rare beauty and is essential to anyone’s reggae collection.” - All Music

Tracklisting
The Cyclones with Count Ossie – Meditation
Cornell Campbell – Natty Don't Go
Freddie McGregor – Africa Here I Come
Bunnie & Skitter – Lumumbo
Willie Williams – Addis A Baba
L Crosdale – Set Me Free
Leroy Wallace – Far Beyond
Lennie Hibbert – More Creation
Alton Ellis – Blackish White
Winston Jarrett – Fear Not
Devon Russell – Drum Song
The Gaylads – Africa
Black Brothers – School Children
Linton Cooper – You'll Get Your Pay
Sound Dimension – Congo Rock
Zoot Simms – African Challenge