Studio One Rockers

SOUL JAZZ, 2001

You say: “’I’ve been caning their Studio One comps: Rockers, Soul, that amazing Jackie Mittoo collection.” Stewart Smith, via Twitter The first style-themed Studio One set – see also: Rub-A-Dub,

Roots, DJs, etc – Rockers remains unsurpassable. The title’s definition is loose but the grooves are tight, running the gamut of ’60s tunes and rhythms that teemed out of Coxsone Dodd’s Brentford Road HQ, thence fuelling reggae for decades: from the foundational Real Rock, via rocksteady gold standards (Marcia Griffiths’ Feel Like Jumping and Dawn Penn’s No, No, No), on to classics from Johnny Osbourne (Truth And Rights), Freddie McGregor (Bobby Bobylon), Horace Andy (Skylarking), Michigan & Smiley (Eye Of Danger) et al. Fifteen tracks of inevitable dancehall detonation.