From The Roots: Limited Yellow & Transluscent Green Marbled Vinyl LP BirdPen New songs about the West

New songs about the West Virginia coal mines (“Three Miles Beneath This Mountain”) and living in an extended stay motel (“Midway Motel”) sit beside new and more urgent interpretations of late period classics

Bony Moronie*

Emmylou Harris

The album's title

From The Roots: Limited Yellow & Transluscent Green Marbled Vinyl LP BirdPen New songs about the WestFrom The Roots is the fourth studio album by one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups, The Maytals. The group was founded in 1962 by Toots Hibbert, Henry Raleigh Gordon, and Nathaniel Jerry Mathias. They helped popularizing reggae music during the Sixties and were even credited in the etymology of the word Reggae in the Oxford English Dictionary, as a result of being the first to use the word Reggae in their 1968 single Do They Reggay.