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01. Jah Stitch - The Rod Of Creation
02. Jah Stitch - Dreadlocks Don't Play
03. Jah Stitch - Them Love Natty Dread Everywhere
04. Jah Stitch - Natty Gone Clear
05. Jah Stitch - Let's Have Some Fun
06. Jah Stitch - Crazy Woman
07. Jah Stitch - Under Heavy Manners
08. Jah Stitch - God Is Good
09. Jah Stitch - Old Macdonald's Farm
10. Jah Stitch - Midnight Iwah
11. Jah Stitch - Dread Ina Jamdown
12. Jah Stitch - Tree Of Wisdom
ARTIST
TITLE
Watch Your Step Youthman
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RR 317CD RR 317CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/12/2018

Radiation Roots present a reissue of Jah Stitch's Watch Your Step Youthman, originally released in 1977. After a disjointed childhood that saw him raised largely by two aunts between eastern Kingston and rural St Mary, Melbourne James became the toaster Jah Stitch after running away from home and linking with the Spanglers street gang, whose Princess Street headquarters was also the base of the popular Tipper Tone sound system. After cutting his teeth on Tipper Tone alongside Big Youth and Dr Alimantado, friction over financial recompense saw him forming the rival Black Harmony set in 1975, but because the new sound was based in a district that was on the other side of the political divide, Stitch was shot in the face at point-blank range, his miraculous survival immortalized in the Bunny Lee-produced hit, "No Dread Can Dead", which became the title track of Stitch's debut album. Watch Your Step Youthman was the follow-up set released by Bunny in 1977, and again places Jah Stitch's understated Rasta-oriented chanting over a set of rock-hard Aggrovators rhythms, recorded with Johnny Clarke, John Holt, Derrick Morgan, and others.