The Jamaican Vinyl Stories
These Jamaican artists all found a place on the UK and international music stage and have become inexorably linked to record labels such as Blue Beat, Trojan and Island – the UK based labels that released their work.
The Jamaican Vinyl Stories books act as a ‘catalogue raisonné‘ for these key figures: documenting their vinyl issues to create a story of creativity in Jamaica. Supported by period ephemera that traces the development in style and appearance as they developed as artists.
Earthquake On Orange Street: Buster’s Jamaican Singles Story – Jeremy Collingwood
Mind-boggling discography devoted to the Jamaican releases of Prince Buster’s productions from 1961’s Oh Carolina by the Folkes Brothers to 1977’s Uganda by Yusuf Ali & The Revolutionaries. The titles; A and B sides, are listed by year of release with matrix numbers and introductory notes for each year.
Packed with information, there is a black checker which will help identifying your white label pre-releases, a list of the Rock-A-Shacka reissues and pages of full colour life size reproductions of the various label designs, as well as a sample of white labels complete with “sound man markings”.
Hours of fun and a useful resource, this is the result of hours of furrow-browed research and really only serves to increase ones desire to see more of Buster’s music reissued immediately and properly.
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Earthquake On Orange Street. Paperback A4 size 55 pages.
EU residents, please purchase from Aggroshop.nl
Earthquake On Orange Street. Paperback A4 size 55 pages.
Lick It Back: The Jamaican Vinyl Story Bob Marley by Jeremy Collingwood
Jeremy Collingwood has done more than most in trying to set the facts straight concerning the life and music of Bob Marley. Over the years much has been written about Bob and the Wailers, much of it tailored to fit the various agenda’s of the writers, whether in books and magazines or in online forums, blogs and websites. JC is having none of it. Here he tells the story via the tale the actual records tell, focusing on the Jamaican pressed vinyl and giving full attention to the pre-breakthrough releases through the likes of Clement Dodd’s Studio One label, Leslie Kong’s Beverley’s label and Lee Perry’s Upsetter label, as well as Bob’s own Wail’m Soul’m and Tuff Gong labels.
The contents of this book are broken down into four sections; Bob’s Career, His Musical Family, His Family and an Appendix. Illustrated throughout with scans of over 500 Bob record labels and over 350 other labels, sleeves and fascinating memorabilia, this will be an essential addition to your musical library.
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Lick It Back: The Jamaican Vinyl Story Bob Marley. Hardback 170 pages.
EU residents, please purchase from Aggroshop.nl
Lick It Back: The Jamaican Vinyl Story Bob Marley. Hardback 170 pages.
Scratch The Super Ape: The Jamaican Releases by Jeremy Collingwood
A homage to LEE PERRY’s Vinyl releases from 1964 to 1982.
More than 800 label images plus a host of other images including classic Adrian Boot photos of the Black Ark, give a powerful visual vibe to this 275-page book.
A year-by-year discography plus features on Perrys work with key reggae artists such as Bob Marley, Junior Byles, Augustus Pablo, Junior Murvin and Yabby You are at the heart of Scratch the Super Ape.
Sections on tracks recorded by others at the Black Ark and singles related to Scratch, complete the story.
Scratch the Super Ape is a catalogue raisonne of Lee Perry’s Vinyl output during his – and vinyl’s – golden decades of the 1960s and 1970s.
Available to purchase at Dub Vendor:
Scratch The Super Ape: The Jamaican Releases by Jeremy Collingwood
EU residents, please purchase from Aggroshop.nl
Scratch The Super Ape: The Jamaican Releases by Jeremy Collingwood