| To celebrate June’s observance, Pretty Posse, and Jah Wise from Tippertone Hi-Fi will be on hand to spin all-vinyl sets from 12pm to 3pm EST. The event will be broadcast live on the VP Records YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/vprecords Conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees Record Store Day was created to spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1,400 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. Today there are Record Store Day participating stores on every continent. For this installation, VP Records will issue Lee Scratch Perry – Roast Fish, Collie Weed, and Corn Bread. This is a classic 1978 vocal LP from the reggae icon, recorded at the apex of his Black Ark studio, carefully remastered and pressed on medium dark red colored vinyl, with printed inner sleeve and liner notes from Lee Perry biographer David Katz. The package includes a beautiful Adrian Boot photograph not found in the original or any previous version of this release. Freddie McGregor’s “Never Run Away” b/w Dennis Walks “Drifter” (12-inch single). These two obscure roots reggae 12-inch singles sides make their first appearance together, taken from high-definition reel-to-reel tape remasters, presented on green vinyl and housed in the iconic Greensleeves 12-inch company sleeve. Freddie McGregor covers Burning Spear’s “Swell Headed” and Dennis Walks updates his own “Drifter” (also popularized by Dennis Brown) in a thick rub-a-dub style, featuring the Roots Radics band. Record Store Day is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store—the staff, the customers, and the artists—to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day. VP Records has participated annually since 2015 and produced special catalog releases and limited-edition packages, this year including remastered editions of Lee Perry’s Roast Fish, Collie Weed, and Corn Bread; Wailing Souls’ Wailing; and Freddie McGregor’s “Never Run Away.” |
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