King Tubby – Meets Rockers Uptown

The album was listed in the 1999 book The Rough Guide: Reggae: 100 Essential CDs. In 2007, The Guardian included it in their list of “1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die”. In 2022, Treble magazine named King Tubby’s Meets Rockers Uptown one of the ten essential remix albums. It was chosen as the second best reggae album of all time by Mojo magazine in their 2024 list of “The 50 Best Reggae Albums Ever”. A dub studio album by Augustus Pablo and King Tubby, released in 1976, it features Carlton Barrett on drums, Robbie Shakespeare and Aston Barrett on bass guitar, and Earl “Chinna” Smith on guitar. Pablo produced the album and played melodica, piano, organ and clavinet. The album was recorded at Randy’s in Kingston, Jamaica.