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01. LINVAL THOMPSON - Don't Trouble Trouble
02. LINVAL THOMPSON - Cool Down Your Temper
03. LINVAL THOMPSON - Black Princess Lady
04. LINVAL THOMPSON - Jezebel Woman
05. LINVAL THOMPSON - Blood Gonna Run
06. LINVAL THOMPSON - Money Money
07. LINVAL THOMPSON - Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks
08. LINVAL THOMPSON - Jah Jah The Conqueror
09. LINVAL THOMPSON - Long Long Dreadlocks
10. LINVAL THOMPSON - Natty Dread Girl
11. LINVAL THOMPSON - Ride On Natty Dread
12. LINVAL THOMPSON - No Escape
ARTIST
TITLE
Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RR 309CD RR 309CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/16/2017

Radiation Roots present a reissue of Linval Thompson's Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks, originally released in 1976. Distinctive tenor singer Linval Thompson honed his singing craft in his formative years, growing in the west Kingston ghetto of Three Mile, where he was associated with Dennis Brown, Johnnie Clarke, and Al Campbell. A subsequent move to New York brought him into expatriate act Hugh Hendricks and the Buccaneers, with his debut recording, "No Other Woman", being made circa early 1974 at Patrick Alley's Art Craft studio. A series of other singles followed from his New York sojourn, but the return to Jamaica in 1974 led to more noteworthy singles for Stamma Hobson, Phil Pratt, and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, with "Jah Jah Redder Than Red" and "Girl You've Got To Run", both cut at the Black Ark for Pratt, being the most successful. Yet, it was all but a prelude to the breakthrough success he would finally achieve upon teaming up with Bunny Lee for "Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks" one of the most popular releases of 1975; a debut album of the same name, issued by Third World in 1976, contained some of his most outstanding material, including the devotional "Jah Jah The Conqueror" and "Long Long Dreadlocks", the romance thriller "Black Princess Lady" and the anti-rude boy opus, "Cool Down Your Temper".