Roots

Island Presents Roots collects 37 of the best-loved and most sought-after Roots sides of the mid-to-late seventies, all of which first saw issue outside Jamaica on Blackwell’s famed imprint…

The release of this fourth album by the all-star repertory band, Roots, celebrates the group’s tenth year of existence and combines some studio recordings with selections from a concert at The 1996 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

Arthur Blythe, Nathan Davis, Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, Don Pullen, Santi Debriano, Idris Muhammad got together, and they called themselves "Roots". Their album Stablemates is a solid all-star, all-acoustic, no fuss, album that is bound to get overlooked in the vast world of the recording industry..

2004 UK 15-track 'Mojo' compilation CD album featuring tracks that inspired Britain's most legendary rock band, originally issued with the 2004 August issue of Mojo Magazine and featuring tracks from Little Richard, Bukka White, Spirit, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and more. Superb picture sleeve featuring an early picture of the band!…

The Grass Roots had a series of major hits – most notably "Let's Live for Today," "Midnight Confessions," "Temptation Eyes," and "Two Divided by Love" – that help define the essence of the era's best AM radio. Although the group's members weren't even close to being recognizable, and their in-house songwriting was next to irrelevant, the Grass Roots managed to chart 14 Top 40 hits, including seven gold singles and one platinum single, and two had hits collections that effortlessly went gold…

This mid-'90s Tull studio album has its good moments, mostly shadows of earlier work. All of the songs here have more of a mood of urgency than some of Tull's then-recent albums..