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Roots Knotty Roots: The Discography of Jamaican Music
Roots Knotty Roots The Discography of Jamaican Music Author:Michael Turner, Robert Schoenfeld Roots Knotty Roots - The Discography Of Jamaican Music. This new edition has been updated and revised to include discography details for 44,000 titles released in Jamaica, the UK, the USA and Canada on singles (7", 10" & 12") from 1950 - 1985. Roots Knotty Roots is the most advanced reference work of its kind ever published - the result of ma... more »ny years of serious research and study by the editors with help and assistance from leading collectors worldwide. Sorted alphabetically by Artist and Title, it is the ideal companion volume to the various historical texts on Jamaican Music. Jamaican recordings present a complex web of tangled credits and identifications that can make the collector's job very difficult. Here the editors, with valuable help from leading experts, have taken on the challenging task of sorting out the myriad credit errors or miss-identifications that have baffled collectors and created confusion for many years. Roots Knotty Roots provides a full complement of details for every title (when available) including the matrix or label number, the producer and the date of release for both the original Jamaican release and it's UK mate. A separate section of US / Canadian issues appears as the second part of this massive data file which runs to 600 pages of detail.« less