Another blinder from Basic Channel’s Wackies re-issue programme finally gets a re-press.

Between stints in Jamaica for legends like Glen Brown and Junjo Lawes, Wayne Jarrett travelled from his Connecticut base to record this album during the same weeks as the sessions for everyone’s favourite – Horace Andy’s Dance Hall Style.

These are two of the great vocal reggae LPs of all time – no questions asked. With Clive Hunt in full effect, Showcase Volume One follows the six-track dub-showcase format and Wayne never sounded more like Horace with his yearning throaty gargle! Blues afficionados might even want to discuss the influence of the late, lamented Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland on reggae vocals, but that’s by the by.

Including four unmissable Studio One versions – Azul’s deadly Rockfort Rock, Sleepy’s Every Tongue Shall Tell (with outrageous Isley fuzz), yet another Heptones cut via Leroy Sibbles, and a killer Drum Song.