long lost dub records

some years ago I loaned away a great many dub records to a guy with a dub show on WHPK. He was named Matthew as I rememeber. This must have been in 1997 or 1998 or so. Anyway, at the time I wanted folks to hear them. Now I want to hear them. Maybe someday Matt with eventually show up, I know he was from Columbus, OH and worked at the Regenstein library at the University of Chicago.

I had been fortunate enough to get into the singers and players via Jason Lee in high school, so I had a head start coming to Chicago and knowing a chunk of Bim Sherman, Adrian Sherwood, the Roots Radics, Ashanti Roy and of course of course of course Prince Far I (who had material available on the cassette only Reach Out International Records) - Slim, I never took that ROIR sticker off the back of the poopmobile when I sold it for some reason. I will some day make it up to our collective karmic consciousness.

Anyway, someday, maybe I will find all my Prince Far I, Singers and Players, African Head Charge, Mikey Dread, and of course the creation rebel and the new age steppers.

despite the total awesomeness of all this stuff, it's very hard to find. even the onU sound wiki basically says "there was no record keeping so who knows what was actually released".

here was one I found:



but right now the song "foggy road" from a live ROIR cassette is what I'm missing.

looking at the prince far i stuff online I am amazed at how much of it I had, but how much of it I don't have.

now I am missing:

cry tuff chapter 3,4

voice of thunder, ten commandments, free from sin, spear of the nation come to mind...

this is an awesome site.