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...
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...
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...
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...
Various Artists -Â Rough Inna Town: The Xterminator Sound
The nineties were a golden age for both reggae and dancehall music and thanks to Echoes, I was able to write about so much of what was...
Steely & Clevie - Old To The New
It was VP Records' Murray Elias who conceived and oversaw this tribute to Jamaican producer Joe Gibbs, and then commissioned me to write...
