Rockers [Original Soundtrack]

• Artist: Various Artists
• Release Date: 1980
• Total Time: 45:24
• Type: Collection (various artists), Soundtrack
• Genre: Soundtrack

Review

Music is integral to this seminal Jamaican film, as it follows the exploits of drummer Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, who plays himself, and featuring a myriad of other denizens of the music industry in lead roles and bit parts. The movie itself was awash in music, which pours out of clubs, studios, record shops, and radios. The soundtrack features only some of the songs included in the film, but what a collection of cuts it is. Bunny Wailer's anthemic title track, Inner Circle's infectious "We a Rockers," Jacob Miller's masterpiece "Tenement Yard," Peter Tosh's threatening "Stepping Razor," Junior Byles' equally forceful "Fade Away" -- classic songs one and all. Gorgeous harmonies are delivered up by the Maytones, Justin Hines & the Dominoes, and the Heptones on some of their greatest songs. Jamaica's smoothest singer, Gregory Isaacs, performs a sublime "Slavemaster," Junior Murvin's sweet tones simmer across "Police and Thieves," and Kiddus I delivers up an extraordinary cultural toast. One of the most arresting scenes in the film belonged to Burning Spear's Winston Rodney, performing a powerful a cappella "Jah No Dead." It is just as potent on record, and segues exquisitely into Third World's loving cover of "Satta Amasagana." From rockers to grounations, Rockers had it all, and the soundtrack remains one of the most diverse yet coherent albums of the roots age. ~ Jo-Ann Greene, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
We 'A' Rockers	Bernard Touter Harvey	Inner Circle	(3:23)
Money Worries		The Maytones	(3:22)
Police and Thieves	Junior Murvin, Lee "Scratch" Perry	Junior Murvin	(3:52)
Book of Rules	Leroy Sibbles, Derrick Morgan, Barry Llewellyn	The Heptones	(3:27)
Stepping Razor	Joe Higgs, Peter Tosh	Peter Tosh	(3:16)
Tenement Yard	Jacob Miller, Roger Lewis	Jacob Miller	(2:35)
Fade Away	Junior Byles	Junior Byles	(3:04)
Rockers	Bunny Wailer, Neville Livingston	Bunny Wailer	(5:36)
Slave Master	Gregory Isaacs	Gregory Isaacs	(2:28)
Dread Lion	Lee "Scratch" Perry	The Upsetters, Lee "Scratch" Perry	(3:10)
Graduation in Zion		Kiddus I	(2:46)
Jah No Dead	Winston Rodney	Burning Spear	(2:11)
Satta Massagana	Donald Manning, Lynford Manning	Third World, Justin Hinds & Dominoes	(3:32)
Natty Take Over	Justin Hinds, Michael Roper	Justin Hinds & Dominoes	(3:08)

Credits

Jacob Miller (Performer), Vartan (Art Direction), Godwin Logie (Engineer), Dana Smart (Reissue Supervisor), Kiddus I (Performer), The Maytones (Performer), Chris Blackwell (?), Theodoros Bafaloukos (Logo Design), Lily Salinas (Tape Research), David Lascelles (Tape Research), Inner Circle (Performer), The Heptones (?), Bunny Wailer (Performer), Third World (Performer), Burning Spear (Performer), Lee "Scratch" Perry (Performer), Theodoros Bafaloukos (Executive Producer), Junior Murvin (Performer), Gavin Lurssen (Mastering), Zonker Roberts (Tape Research), Theodoros Bafaloukos (Photography), Junior Byles (Performer), Groucho (Engineer), Jane Hitchin (Tape Research), Theodoros Bafaloukos (Design), Theodoros Bafaloukos (Art Direction), Peter Tosh (Performer), Justin Hinds & Dominoes (Performer), Bill Levenson (Reissue Supervisor), The Heptones (Performer), Gregory Isaacs (Performer), John Dent (Mastering), Third World (?), Avrom Robin (Photography), Scratch (Performer), Margaret Goldfarb (Reissue Production Coordination), Justin Hinds (Performer), Chris Blackwell (Soundtrack Compilation), Avrom Robin (Executive Producer), Inner Circle (?)