Since its release in 1989, Groove Yard has remained one of the best introductions to reggae music available. Because it draws on the very deep Island/Mango catalog, its contents cover just about every important reggae artist: Burning Spear, Toots & the Maytals, Jacob Miller, Augustus Pablo -- it's like roll call at the Reggae Hall of Fame.Every reggae fan will have a couple of quibbles, but overall this is one reggae album that could be confidently recommended to anyone who wants just one for their collection.

Label:      Mango – CID-1281, Island Records – CID-1281

Format:     CD, Compilation

Country:    Canada

Released:   1989

Genre:      Reggae

Style:      Dub, Roots Reggae

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TRACKLIST:

1     Jimmy Cliff–      The Harder They Come    3:02

2     The Melodians–    Rivers Of Babylon 4:17

3     The Heptones–     Book Of Rules     3:30

4     Burning Spear–    Marcus Garvey     3:44

5     Augustus Pablo–   King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown 2:32

6     Dillinger–  Cokane In My Brain      2:44

7     Max Romeo–  War Ina Babylon   4:50

8     Junior Murvin–    Police And Thieves      3:48

9     Lee Perry–  Roast Fish And Cornbread      4:23

10    Toots & The Maytals–    Reggae Got Soul   3:05

11    Third World–      96° In The Shade  4:38

12    Jacob Miller–     Tenement Yard     3:34

13    Steel Pulse–      Ku Klux Klan      3:30

14    Linton Kwesi Johnson–   Sonny's Lettah    3:50

15    King Sunny Ade–   Ja Funmi    3:34

16    Gregory Isaacs–   Night Nurse 3:35

17    Black Uhuru–      Solidarity  3:30

18    Aswad–      Don't Turn Around 3:25

19    Ray Lema–   Moni Mambo  5:00