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12" Vinyl – SR004

Keeling roots dub platter yielding Sheila Rickards and King Tubby’s super rare and amazing cut backed with dubs. Previously available on an obscure compilation from Toronto in the ‘70s, this edition follows a 10” pressing in 2013, omitting the acapella for King Tubby & Prince Philip’s ‘The Dub Station’ mix, plus dubs by The Aggrovators and Diggory Kendrick. 

The knockout original features Sheila Rickards belting out a powerful story about Jamaicans’ journey from Africa and struggles during the era of slavery and colonialism, set to a deadly riddim brimming with organs and a full voiced wind section. Prince Philip (no, definitely not that twat), who worked in King Tubby’s studio during the ‘70s, jumps in with Tubby on a rocking dub, backed with the totally haunting ‘Roots Jamaica Dub’ giving room for the The Aggrovators’ crack squad to cut loose, while the Diggory Kendrick dub wraps up with a blinding psychedelic mix lending lots of room in the upper registers for his woozy flute.