V.A. Studio One Lovers Rock

Soul Jazz Records new Studio One album is a fantastic selection
featuring all-star legendary Studio One vocalists - Alton Ellis, Marcia
Griffiths, The Heptones, Horace Andy, Freddie McGregor, Sugar
Minott - alongside a host of classic and super-rare Lovers Rock cuts all
of which Clement Dodd recorded at the Brentford Road studio.
Lovers rock brought together many elements and here you will find
sweet harmonies, late 1960s rocksteady, 1970s soul covers,
discomixes, recuts and new rhythms – which all fit together in a
timeless twilight of love & harmony - as if lovers silhouetted by a
Kingston sunset.
Here you will find stone-cold classic Studio One tunes – Marcia
Griffiths ‘Truly’, Horace Andy’s I’ll Be Gone super-rare cuts like Carlton
and The Shoes killer 70s versions of Never Give Your Heart Away and
Let Me Love You (vocal cut to Jackie Mittoo’s mighty Wall Street), The
Invaders sweet lovers rocksteady bomb ‘Sweet Soul Rocking’
(currently for sale at £2,500 on discogs!) and many more!
This new album comes with sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley, the
acclaimed author of Bass Culture, Sounds Like London and Reggae:
The Story of Jamaican Music.