Roots Reggae was a fundamental part of my musical up bringing. A fundamentsl part of the musical fabric of the UK in the seventies and eighties. Bob Marley & The Wailers of course. Black Uhuru. Steel Pulse. Althea & Donna. Lee Perry. Toots & The Maytals. Misty In Roots.
Over the course of my lifetime I've probably seen Misty more than any other band. Starting in a hastily constructed wooden shed in St Margarets in my college days which I remember chiefly for the throb of the bass, the atmosphere of genial blissed good will of the place, the graceless sack of potatoes dancing of one of the schoolmates I went with.
Misty's -Live At The Eurovision 1979 was championed by John Peel ceaselessly and is generallyheld up as the record you need to hear to understand where they're coming from. They're utterly uncompromising. Biblical. Old Testament in their severity and dread. Judgement is coming. In the meantime.
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