This is a special album and deserves a place in anyone’s collection. The early Studio One album covers were usually joyous and uncynical affairs. Artists always looked thrilled to be recording an album and having their photo taken for the cover – Sunday best and church clothes were mandatory, as were big smiles. There was [...]
This is Dennis Brown’s ‘No Man Is An Island’ album on Studio One records, released in 1970. You simply just don’t get reggae album covers like this anymore. If this was done today and Dennis Brown was an upcoming singer, then I’d expect that the cover would show Dennis reclining in the back of a [...]
This is the debut album from The Wailing Souls which was released on Studio One in 1975. I really like this cover. They all look like they have rushed to a local shop to borrow the outfits and then rused to the local building site to pose on some construction equipment – no professional stylist [...]
You don’t mess with Dennis Alcapone’s home security system. Gangsters may brag about ‘packing heat’, but Alcapone never goes anywhere without his mobile cannon. Dennis “Alcapone” Smith was one of the few DJs in Jamaica capable of giving the great U Roy any competition. His smooth singing style of toasting is brilliantly captured on this [...]
This album is so great we are showing the front and back of the record sleeve. Horace Andy released his classic ‘Skylarking’ album on Studio One for Coxsone Dodd – the term ‘skylarking’ refers to people not taking things seriously, something that Horace Andy is not guilty of on this record. I really like this [...]
