Redman International - We Run Things (VP Records)
I was honoured to write the liner notes for VP Records' important new retrospective of Hugh "Red Man" James' mid-to-late 80s' dancehall...
Bob Marley & The Wailers - The Capitol Session '73
.At last! Thanks to director Martin Disney for commissioning me to write the liner notes for this first official release of Bob Marley...
Cocoa Tea - Music Is Our Business
EXTRACT Cocoa Tea is sat on a small wicker chair in Bobby Digital's front garden. It's mid-afternoon and the studio hasn't come to life...
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...