King Tubby Meets the Upsetters-Roots

The Upsetters, King Tubby | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 6, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Allegro Distributed Lines
• ASIN: B00005A0C6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,205,188 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blood of Africa

2. African Roots

3. Rain Roots

4. Wood Roots

5. Luke Lane Rock

6. People from the Grass Roots

7. Crime Wave

8. No Justice for the Poor

9. 300 Years at the Grass Roots

10. King & The Upsetters at Spanish Town

11. I Am the King

12. Most High in Dub

13. Teacher of Dub

14. King of Kings in Dub

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars King Tubby Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub, September 4, 2003

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Shorty "shorty" (Locks Heath, Hants) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King Tubby Meets the Upsetters-Roots (Audio CD)

I remember hearing tracks from the above album back in 1974 when I was a youth. Back then there were a few guys who ran a small sound system and they used to try their equipment out at the local youth club where I used to regularly go. I always remember seeing these huge woofers placed in the corners with tweeters stacked on top of them. There were wires running all over the place connecting the speakers to the huge amp (every now and then a valve would blow). There was only one turntable and I remember the DJs quickly changing the discs over. I was always intrigued by the music they would play. The singles normally had the artist and song title scratched out and the LPs had blank white labels. There was one LP that they played to death and I was dumbfounded by this new style of reggae music; just instrumental with heavy bass lines and lots of reverb and echo. I had to have that LP and asked what the LP was, "King Tubby Meets The Upsetter At The Grass Roots Of Dub" I was told. This CD includes this album on it on the first 10 tracks. These are "vintage" dubs and essential to anyone's dub collection. The remaining 4 tracks have been added to increase the playing time but shouldn't be confused with the first 10 tracks. This is an original King Tubby masterpiece.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tubby's in Fine Style, November 22, 2008

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Michael G. Rose "dr. strangedub" (minneapolis,mn USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Tubby Meets the Upsetters-Roots (Audio CD)

The first real dub album I bought - with only a few dollars in my pocket - and still one of, if not the, best... Original Upsetter productions given the full-on Tubby treatment. Inside-out, x-ray reggae at its best. Miles and miles from the hum-along, tropical party reggae we are all so familiar with. One word: crucial.