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U Roy / Strihev All Stars ‎– The Right To Live / Movering Black Art Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Jamaica, 1975 Info I hate conversations about "authenticity." Pretentious discussions about whether something counts as "creativity" make me run. Nothing's new, we all steal ideas, who cares? Case in point: today's record, another single by the mighty U-Roy (RIP). On The Right To Live  from 1975, U-Roy lays down his own lyrics about living on the run and escaping a prison death sentence over a version of Cornell Campbell's I Gotta Keep On Running from the same year. Campbell's cut followed the Wailers' Keep On Moving  from a few years earlier. Song writing credit on the U-Roy and Campbell discs are given to "Robert Marley," but the Wailers had in turn been riffing on the Impressions' 1964 Keep On Movin' , written by Curtis Mayfield. U-Roy's single was released on two different labels, one of which was Lee "Scratch" Perry...

U Roy ‎– Linger You Linger Pressure Sounds ‎– PSS 024 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Reissue, UK, 2008 (Originally released on Mego-Ann, JA, 1972) info U-Roy, the Originator, passed away a few weeks ago at age 78. There are plenty of obituaries out there . You can read much better writers than me talking about  his place in reggae history or the credit that the foundation deejays, U-Roy above all, deserve for planting the seeds of hip-hop and more. (Mad Professor in Rolling Stone: “Without him, there would be no dancehall, no hip-hop, no rap, no Afrobeat.") By all accounts, this musical legend was a truly humble man and a pleasure to work with or talk to. Many of U-Roy's friends, the younger generation of deejays that he mentored on his King Stur-Gav Sound System, and current dancehall stars have been testifying online about how grateful they are to have known him. Steve Barrow, the writer of many liner notes in your reggae record collection and former head of the brilliant Blood ...