This is one for the teenagers. Before I phones, You Tube, and Facebook we used to have this thing called cassette tapes. The record industry has always been under threat from one threat or another but back in the 1980s cassette tape was seen as a threat to Vinyl. When the Sony Walkman first came out it was revolutionary. For the first time you could take your music with you. Nowadays MP3s have taken over but Vinyl and cassette tapes still have a place in peoples music collections (although most of my tapes are now mp3s). This week a friend shared an old reggae track on Facebook- Roast Fish and Cornbread by Lee Perry. However, after looking everywhere on the web then I couldn't find the old compilation that included this. Eventually after much digging through old boxes I found it.
In the 1990s Island records had released a number of old albums from their reggae back catalogue under a new label 'Reggae Refreshers'. This compilation was a taster of the various artists who had reissued albums in Islands Reggae collection. So here is a piece of music archaeology. From 1990 here is the track-listing for Reggae Refreshers Sampler Vol 1.
Side One
Night Nurse - Gregory Isaacs
Moulding - Ijahman
Street 66 - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Draw Your Brakes - Scotty
Babylon Makes The Rules - Steel Pulse
Hard Road To Travel - Jimmy Cliff
Burnin' and Lootin' - The Wailers
Tribal War - Third World
Side Two
Fatty Fatty - The Heptones
Funky Kingston - Toots & The Maytals
Roast Fish & Cornbread - Lee Scratch Perry
King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown - Augustus Pablo
Cokane In My Brian - Dillinger
Push Push - Black Uhuru
War Ina Babylon - Max Romeo
Door Peep - Burning Spear
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