Various Artists - Full Up: Bunny 'Striker' Lee's Early Reggae Productions 1968 - 72 (Pressure Sounds)

However, as the title suggests, 'Full Up: Bunny 'Stiker' Lee's Early Reggae Productions 1968-72' focusses on an early snapshot in Bunny Lee's career, when during the late nineteen sixties and early seventies the producer travelled to the United Kingdom for the first time, a fact which sets this compilation apart. Initially Lee still mainly travelled to the United Kingdom to sell the material he'd recorded in Jamaica, but soon he also started to record in local studios like Maximum Sound and Tooting Music Centre and especially Chalk Farm Studios in Camden, focusing on creating custom made tunes for the English public. The vocal parts of the songs on 'Full Up' were provided by artists like Dave Barker, Delroy Wilson, Stranger Cole and U Roy, but it are mainly the instrumental versions in the track list that capture the imagination. Be sure to check Tommy McCook's flute solo in 'Hook Up', the great harmonica playing of blind Jamaican musician Roy Richards ('Death Rides A Horse') or Ken Elliot's howling Moog ('Joe Lewis')!