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Soul Jazz Records’ new Soul Jamaica brings together a wicked selection of reggae funk and soul tracks from the legendary Studio One stable, featuring a stellar line-up of artists including Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Gladiators, Sim Smith, Peter Tosh and The Wailers, Cedric ‘Im’ Brooks and many more.

For a short period of time at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, nestled between the end of rocksteady and the arrival of roots reggae, Studio One released a small stream of superb soul and funk reggae tunes – covering everyone from Sly and The Family Stone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Nina Simone, Gene Chandler, Tyrone Davis and more.

Most of the tracks featured on Soul Jamaica were only ever released on Studio One’s UK-subsidiary label Bamboo in small-run pressings and are now consequently extremely hard to find.

1-1 Alton Ellis - Tumbling Tears

1-2 Winston Francis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time 

1-3 Sound Dimension - Sing A Simple Song 

1-4 The Gladiators - Fling It Gimme 

1-5 Jackie Mittoo;JACKIE MITTOO - Soul Finger 

1-6 Winston Francis - Groovy Situation 

1-7 Calvin Marshall - La La 69 

1-8 Soul Defenders - Way Back Home 

1-9 The Heptones - Young, Gifted and Black 

1-10 Im and David - Up Fully 

1-11 Slim Smith - Keep That Light 

1-12 Sound Dimension - Give It Away 

1-13 Zoot Simms - Real Gone Loser 

1-14 Sound Dimension - Soul Bowl 

1-15 Peter Tosh - Can't You See 

1-16 Joy Roberts - Someday We'll Be Together 

1-17 The Freedom Singers - Give Peace A Chance 

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The album is a mix of classic tunes and rhythms alongside super-rarities that were released in a dazzlingly complex web of Studio One labels and issues, deftly navigated with new sleeve notes from author and Studio One authority Rob Chapman. But enough with the chatter, just spin the platter - these tunes rule the town, hands down!

Tracklist: 

1. Alton Ellis - It's True (2:45)

2. The Heptones - You Turned Away (2:30)

3. The Gladiators - Mr Sweet (2:20)

4. The Jail Breakers - Work It Up (2:23)

5. Lee "Scratch" Perry;The Gaylads - Run Rudie Run (2:50)

6. The Heptones - Young Generation (3:30)

7. Jackie Mittoo - Good Feeling (2:13)

8. C. Marshall - I Need Your Loving (2:37)

9. Alton Ellis - I'll Be Waiting (2:34)

10. The Clarendonians - The Tables Gonna Turn (3:17)

11. Ken Parker - When You're Gone (2:08)

12. Sound Dimension - Traveling Home (3:38)

13. Errol Dunkley - Get Up Now (2:29)

14. John Holt - My Heart Is Gone (2:49)

15. Freedom Singers;Larry Marshall - Monkey Man (2:12)

16. The Ethiopians - Let The Light Shine (2:55)

17. Im and David - Money Maker (2:39)

18. The Viceroys - Lose and Gain (2:35)

1.  This is the second installment of deep roots Rastafarian reggae at Studio One and features classic music from some of the most important figures in reggae music Alton Ellis, The Heptones, Jackie Mittoo, The Gladiators alongside a host of rarities and little-known recordings, such as a truly rare Mystic Revelation of Rastafari seven-inch single, Willie Williams first ever recording Callingand Horace Andys righteous (and equally rare) masterpiece Illiteracy. Black Mans Pride 2 extends the legacy of Studio Ones ground-breaking path in roots reggae which began at the end of the 1960s and continued throughout the 1970s. The album tells the story of how the rise of Studio One Records and the Rastafari movement were interconnected, through the adoption of the Rastafari faith by key reggae artists everyone from the Skatalites and Wailers in the 1960s, major singers such as Alton Ellis and Horace Andy at the end of the decade, through to major roots artists such as The Gladiators in the 1970s and how Clement Dodd consistently recorded this heavyweight roots music throughout Studio Ones history. The sleeve-notes to this album also discuss the links between Rastafari and Studio One in time and place, noting how both the religion and Clement Dodds musical empire had their roots in the intense period of pre-independence Jamaica in Kingston, expanded in the 1960s following the visit of Haile Selassie in 1966, and how roots music then came to dominate reggae music in the early 1970s. Also discussed is how the outsider stance of both reggae music and the Rastafari movement relate back many hundreds of years to the original rebel stance of the Maroons, escaped slaves who set up self-sufficient enclaves in the hills of the Jamaican countryside.
   
   
   01.Horace Andy - Illiteracy
   02. The Heptones - Be a Man
   03. The Manchesters - Natty Gone
   04. The Gladiators - Down Town Rebel
   05. Willie Williams - Calling
   06. Roland Alphonso & Brentford All Stars - Sir D Special
   07. Keith Wilson - God I God I Say
   08. Alton Ellis - Almost Anything
   09. Bobby Kalphat & The New Establishment - Adis a Wa Wa
   10. Peter Broggs - Sing a New Song
   11. Mystic Revelations Of Rastafari - Let Freedom Reign
   12. Larry & Alvin - Free I Lord
   13. Ernest Wilson & The Sound Dimension - Freedom Fighter
   14. Jackie Mittoo - Happy People
   15. Prince Lincoln - Daughters of Zion
   16. High Charles - Zion
   17. Winston Jarrett - Love Jah Jah
   
   
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