Roots to the Bone

Infobox Album |
Name = Rico Rodriguez
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Rico Rodriguez

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Released = 1995 (UK, Int.)
Recorded = May, 1976, September 1976, 1979
Genre = Reggae
Label = Island
Producer = Karl Pitterson, Rico Rodriguez, Dick Cuthell, Dennis Bovell
Reviews = --

"Roots to the Bone" was issued in 1995 by Island Records as an extended reissue of Rico Rodriguez' most important album Man from Wareika with some 12" sides from the late 1970s.

Rico was musically very active during that time playing in Europe as well as in Japan. He just had releases with Jazz Jamaica and continued with his own recordings he had produced in Japan during 1994/1995. At the same time Trojan re-released his 1969 LPs "Blow Your Horn" and "Brixton Cat" while Island used its Reggae Refreshers series to present Rico on this album "Roots to the Bone".

The [http://www.geocities.com/braunovi/RodriguezRico/RicoB1994Barrow.htm liner notes] have been written by Steve Barrow as a short history of Rico's career that lasted for half a century just as long as the development of Jamaican music as one "of the world's great popular musics". He concludes: "as one of its original creators, he has used his trombone to sing the songs of King Alpha as convincingly as any vocalist."

Track listing:

#"Children of Sanchez"
#"Midnight in Ethiopia"
#"Free Ganja"
#"Take Five"
#"No Politician"
#"Firestick"
#"This Day"
#"Ramble"
#"Lumumba"
#"Africa"
#"Man From Wareika"
#"Over The Mountain"
#"Dial Africa"

All tracks written by Rico Rodriguez except Track 1 written by C. Mangione, track 4, written by P. Desmond.

Credits

Produced by Karl Pitterson except track 1 produced by Dennis Bovell, track 2 prod. by Rico, tracks 3,4 and 12 prod. by Dick Cuthell, track 7 co-produced by Dick CuthellEngineers: Dick Cuthell, Terry Barnham, Godwin Logie, Paul "Groucho" Smykle, Errol T, Karl Pitterson

Cover by Intro

Releases

1995:
*CD: Reggae Refreshers / Mango RRCD 54 / 524 068-2