Sheila Rickards – Jamaican Fruit Of African Roots – Shella
What a flipping tune! This was the first record I heard at work this morning on Gilles’ show via I-player. I’ve heard the heavy dub of this before but never the vocal, turns out it’s a Bunny Lee tune scorcher and there’s a touch of the Shirley Basseys about the intro too. What a tune and re-released on 10” vinyl in the new year, super! Only a minute on youtube, but it gives you a taste!
Full vocal and dub on this podcast http://www.studiofeed.com/main/studiofeed-radio-the-bass-kultcha-show-episode-7-ft-earl-grey/
And “The mystery of Sheila Rickards” from the gleaner http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080528/ent/ent1.html
Weeds up to me knees
Madtone, gardening and life
Weeds up to me knees 
Glad you liked it! The first time I came across this tune I just about lost my mind, so I’m thrilled that more people are finally getting the chance to hear it! You can pre-order a copy of the vinyl at
http://www.shellarecords.com
Cheers and happy gardening!
Chris,
(Shella Records)
Hi Chris, thanks for getting in touch. Good on you for rereleasing such a brilliant record! How is the film coming on, are you any closer to finding the singer? Pete
Cheers Pete, It had to be done! I can’t divulge too much but I’ll keep you posted…
Chris
Hi Chris, please do as it sounds an excellent idea. You should send a promo mp3 to Dr Strangedub as he has an excellent show on KFAI!
http://kfai.org/echochamber
http://strangedub.homestead.com/dub2.html
Keep us posted! Pete