Sound of Vinyl

The Jamaican reggae and dub musician Linval Thompson’s career began around the age of 20. He has been a pioneer within the reggae genre and collaborated with many great Jamaican musicians. I Love Marijuana was his first self-produced LP in 1978 and followed the success of the same-titled single. Other successful tracks include the funky “Dread Are The Controller” and “Just Another Girl”. For the recordings, Linval is backed up by one of the nation’s best bands The Revolutionaries, which included Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare and Errol Smith. After the release of I Love Marijuana, Linval moved on to become a prominent record producer and worked with greats like Lee Perry, Bunny Lee, The Wailing Souls and Eek-A-Mouse amongst many others.