Various – Studio One Roots

It really came with plain white sleeves instead of a extensive notes in a full-color inner sleeves?

This is an awesome collection. There aren't a lot of really well known cuts, and some of the artists included are rather obscure. Highlights include Freddie McGregor's "Africa Here I Come", "More Creation" by Lennie Hibbert, all of side three, and "African Challenge" by Zoot Simms. Shame there's no Burning Spear, but Winston Jarrett's "Fear Not" uses the same rhythm as "Rocking Time". This pressing sounds really good, with plenty of low end, and virtually every track sounds clean, crisp and full. My copy plays nice and clean, with no noticeable surface noise. Five stars and a happy face.

Good, cleaning pressing. My copy has ‘STUDIO ONE SOUL’ printed at the top of the spine.

A bit skippy, especially on the first record. Little flecks of white paper in the grooves it seems. From the inner sleeve, I would imagine.

Studio One Roots set the standard for Soul Jazz Records’ long-standing series of Studio One collections and features many of the classic artists from Clement 'Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s mighty roster of reggae.

This album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining crack-session men groups of Jamaican reggae history - The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. As ever the album is filled with a mixture of seminal cuts and super-rarities from the vast vaults of 13 Brentford Road.

Stand-out tracks include Alton Ellis’s Blackish White, a surreal and powerful Afro-centric dream, Count Ossie Nyabinghi and Rastafarian drummers genre-defying interpretation of Booker T and The MGs ‘Meditation’, Willie Williams awe-inspiring versioning of the Skatalites' seminal Rastafari anthem Addis Ababa and many, many more.

This album has been fully digitally remastered, analog cut and packaged complete with the following: Original sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley (author of When Reggae Was King), compiled by Mark Ainley (Honest Jons), high-quality Soul Jazz mastering, wicked images of Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on the cover, and a rare image of Clement Dodd and musicians inside the studio at Studio One on the full colour inner sleeves.

In what way does this repress differ from the original 2001 pressing? Anyone know?