roots reggae ~ Jamaica 1972

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This 45 was first pressed in 1972 on the Jamaican 'Splash' Label.
This 1974 Clocktower press label 45 is the same recording. Many reggae cover songs don't often credit the original songwriters on record labels. I see this a lot on reggae 45s.
Neil Young never sounded better.

roots reggae / dub ~ Jamaica 1972

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Producer/keyboardist/singer, "Tall T" aka Lloyd "Charmers" Tyrell starting out as half of the 50s reggae duo, The Charmers. An accomplished sessions musician through the 60s, he joined Slim Smith and The Uniques in 1967 before going on to produce and record many covers of American soul songs with various Jamaican artists, including Ken Boothe.
In the early 1970s Lloyd started the Jamaican Splash label. Don't have a definitive source on the back up band on this recording. Not certain. May be or likely, "The Touchers" were guitarist Mikey Chung and The Now Generation Band who were working with Lloyd Charmers around this time.

Lloyd Charmers 1938-2012

roots reggae ~ Jamaica 1973

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left: Val Douglas, top: Robbie Lyn, right/far right: Mikey Richards, Geoffrey Chung, bottom: Mikey Chung

Instrumental version of the 1970 Kris Kristofferson classic. Lloyd Charmers version/vocal. Mikey Chung on lead guitar.

roots reggae ~ 1970

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Found this a couple of years ago in a "rock-pop" long box at Amoeba Records here in San Francisco. A misfiled mistake? Don't know.
John Holt did some great covers.
This is a US press of the same Studio One recording from 1970.
Great Neil Diamond cover.

John Holt 1947 - 2014
This just sounds especially good this morning.
John Holt's beautiful, " Lovers rock " reggae cover of the Isley Brother's soul classic.
I decided to mix and post two different 45 sides of the same tune here by him. Both from 1975.
The vocal side (Impact! label) leads into a "dub/instrumental" version side (Clintones label).

"Once you hit the road, there ain't no turning back..."

A song for spring.