Bobby Digital - Serious Times
Bobby Digital is a key figure in dancehall music's international breakthrough. When I first visited him in the early nineties he'd...
On U Sound - Dread Operator
Producer Adrian Sherwood has crossed so many musical boundaries throughout his lengthy career that it's impossible to describe the kind...
Matata - Wanna Do My Thing
London in the early seventies was a hot bed of creativity; musical and otherwise. I'd just moved to the capital as a twenty-one year old...
The Last Poets - Understand What Black Is
Understand What Black Is was released to coincide with the Last Poets' 50th anniversary. It was co-producer Prince Fatty who first played...
Gussie Clarke - From The Foundation
The quotes used in these liner notes resulted from a stay in Jamaica during 2015, whilst working on a film about Gussie commissioned by...
Bobby Digital - X-Tra Wicked
Bobby Digital is a classic example of someone who hides his light under a bushel, unless he's in the studio making music that is. With...
King Jammy's - Roots, Reality And Sleng-Teng
This essential King Jammy's compilation is another title in VP Records' Reggae Anthology series, which is aimed at furthering an...
Various Artists - Total Reggae: Greensleeves 40th 1977-2017
What a label! I'd bought the records, played them as a DJ and radio presenter, interviewed many of their artists and producers and then...
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Like many UK teenagers during the late sixties, I grew up listening to a broad spectrum of music that included pop, blues, rock and roll,...
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - A Jackson In Your House
In 2012, Snapper Music commissioned me to write liner notes for a series of reissues on BYG Actuel - a label founded by three maverick...
