Artist: Various Artists

Title: Best of Jamaican R&B: Jamaican Blues Beat 1

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Reggae

UPC: 881034134608

Release Date: 2015

Record Label: Sanctuary Records

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Boogie in My Bones - Laurel Aitken & the Caribs
2. Forward March - Derrick Morgan
3. We LL Meet - Roy & Millie
4. Sugar Dandy - the Jiving Juniors
5. Jenny Lee - Owen Gray & the Caribs
6. Back Beat - Roland Alphonso

DISC 2:
1. Honour Your Mother and Father - Desmond Dekker
2. Let the Good Times Roll - Derrick & Patsy
3. Duck Soup - Drumbago & His Band
4. Oh Ma, Oh Pa - the Melody Enchanters
5. Darling Patricia - Owen Gray
6. Worried Over You - Keith & Enid

Vinyl LP pressing, an installment in a series of newly created Trojan Records compilations celebrating the 2015 re-launch of the label. Shortly before the advent of Ska, Jamaica rocked to a sound variously known as Jamaican Blues, Shuffle Blues, or Blues Beat Influenced by U.S. musicians such as Rosco Gordon and Fats Domino, the style emphasized the off-beat and laid the foundation for the Ska sound of the early sixties Features 12 classic tracks from Desmond Dekker, Roland Alphonso, Derrick Morgan, Roy & Millie, Laurel Aitken, The Living Juniors, Owen Gray & The Caribs, Drumbago & His Band, The Melody Enchanters and others.