As part of a new series of Bunny Striker Lee catalog projects, which launched with the early instrumental compilation Who Wants Some back in January, VP Records is reissuing Max Romeo’s obscure 1974 album Every Man Ought To Know for Record Store Day UK 2023. 

Rootfire is giving away a copy to one lucky winner and will ship worldwide, thanks to VP Records. The album is remastered from the original reel-to-reel tape and sounds better than ever. It also includes a rare Peter Simon photograph and liner notes from Carter Van Pelt.

Enter the giveaway now!

Every Man Ought To Know

Pre-Order

Max Romeo - Every Man Ought To Know

Bigggg  Bigggg  Bigggggggggg....TUNE !!!!
Man !!!!

Clinton Fearon - Sleepin' Lion(Album:Vision)(2006)

First studio album, recorded in France, Jamaica and the Us Virgin Islands, featuring The Congos, Max Romeo, Vaughn Benjamin (Midnite) and Brother Joe (Sons of Negus).

Trumpet Bush feat. Midnite

Clinton Fearon - Working for the Man

Reggae Family Tree.
Guided by the wisdom of Bob Marley’s message of love and unity, this 17-song reggae album is a celebration of family life and shared spirit. From joyful rhythms to deep reflections, each track tells a story of connection and peace. A surprise song performed by a soulful female voice completes the journey with warmth and grace.

Childhood Street

Crazy Baldheads

Kool Kreol (Live)

Buy on Bandcamp

Patrick Andy - Worry Dem (Soul Jah Sound Dubplate)

Tinga Stewart - Why Can't We Discostyle

Black Roots have produced, written, composed and recorded some highly acclaimed songs during their long career. One of these is ‘Move On’.

The song is about a relationship that has broken down, in which the man realises that his partner has fallen in love with someone else and that he feels that he has no choice but to ‘Move On’. How many of us have faced this dilemma in life’s journey?

First released on their debut vinyl outing simply called ‘4 Track Demo 12”’ back in 1981 it was picked up by the legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel and played on national radio. This helped to propel the band to prominence. Then it appeared on their debut album ‘Black Roots’ that came out in 1983. Since it has featured on some re-releases notably on French label Makasound’s ‘On the Frontline’ and ‘In Session’, and Sugar Shack’s ‘Reggae Singles Anthology’. It is one of the band’s anthems. This is a song that is recognised world-wide and is undoubtedly one of their top 10 best songs of all time.

So it seemed a reasonable proposition for the band to bring it back into the studio some 35 years on to rework it, redefine it, modernise the sound and then release it. And here it is as a digital download only offering, 5 mixes of this wonderful song recorded back in July 2013, once again at J&amp;J Studio, produced by Jeff Spencer and the band, and mixed by Louis Beckett. One of the cuts features Jah Garvey, an upcoming artist, also based in Bristol, who lends his lyrical skills to give added meaning and poignancy to this song. 

The band has made a video to promote this release produced by 8th Sense Media, a film production company based in St Paul's Bristol that the band have worked closely with on several projects including 'Ghetto Feel' and 'Son of Man' .

Move On EP

Move On

Buy @ Bandcamp

ATTENTION EXCLU : Le dub de Sweet Reggae Music par DUBMATIX ! L'album obidaya sera disponible le 29 avril 2013.
Pré-commandes sur amazon.fr et fnac.com

Sweet dub music (by DUBMATIX) - OBIDAYA ET DUBMATIX

A platform for Reggae music worldwide. Empowering Artists / Building Community.

𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩:
rootfire@rootfire.net
𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞: https://rootfire.net
𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤: https://www.facebook.com/RootfireNet/
𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦: https://instagram.com/rootfire_intl/
𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫: https://twitter.com/rootfire_intl