The Roots of Dub

Roots Archives lists it as a King Tubby album on Total Sounds, and retailer listings give Bunny Lee as producer, though VP Records does not name him. VP's Carter Van Pelt writes that the riddims were first touched by Cornel Campbell, Johnny Clarke and Linval Thompson, many of them from Studio One, Treasure Isle or High Note, and that vocals are buried under phasing, high-pass filtering, echo and reverb, with the bass of Familyman Barrett, Fully Fullwood and the young Robbie Shakespeare prominent. Treble says it settles into a warm and spacious mood, and that its cover design was later borrowed by The Beta Band. Greensleeves reissued it on vinyl in 2023.

A store listing gives the sides as Natty Dub, Dub Magnificent, A First Class Dub, The Stepping Dub, Rude Boy Dub and A Closer Dub on side one, and Roots of Dub, Dub You Can Feel and Loving Dub on side two, while another listing adds three more tracks, so the pressing varies. We found no track times, studio or reviews.