Augustus Pablo – New Style

Original Rockers

Producer: Augustus Pablo for Rockers Productions

Arranger: Augustus Pablo

Mixing engineer: King Tubby, Phillip Smart, Prince Jammy

Recording studios: Channel One, Dynamic Sounds

Mixing studios: King Tubby’s

Recorded: 1972-75

LP: Rockers DSR 0310 (1977), Greensleeves GREL 8 (1979), Shanachie LP 002 (1979)

CD: Shanachie SH 44008 (1991), Greensleeves GREWCD 8 (2001, digitally re-mastered with two bonus tracks)

Track notes:

Rockers Dub: version of the Heptones’ classic Love Won’t Come Easy; vocals by Pablo & Paul K.

Cassava Piece: version of the Jacob Miller’s Baby I Love You So

Jah Dread: a different mix of Jacob Miller’s Who Say Jah No Dread; vocals by Pablo

Brace a Boy: version of the Dillinger’s Brace Boy; vocals by Dillinger & Clive

Thunder Clap: instrumental cut of Horace Andy’s Ain’t No Sunshine

Park Lane Special: original b-side dub to Hugh Mundell’s Africa Must Be Free; vocals by Hugh Mundell

AP Special: version of the Dillinger’s Brace Boy

Musicians :

Augustus Pablo: organ, piano, clavinet, glockenspiel, melodica

Aston “Family Man” Barrett: bass

Carlton “Carlie” Barrett: drums

Earl “Chinna” Smith: guitar

Richard “Dirty Harry” Hall: saxophone

Bobby Ellis: trumpet

Vincent “Don D Junior” Gordon: trombone

vocals: Dillinger & Clive on “Brace a Boy”, Pablo & Paul K. on “Rockers Dub”; Hugh Mundell on “Park Lane Special”; Pablo on “Jah Dread”

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