Call On You Riddim – Studio One

Produced by Coxsone Dodd for Studio One in 1975, Call On You Riddim brings together Burning Spear’s Call On You with Cedric Brooks and The Brentford Rhythm Band on Everyday Skank and The Brentford Rhythm Band’s Scatter Rock. It sits right in the heart of Studio One’s roots-era run, where Dodd’s production style and the label’s tight house-band sound kept the arrangements lean, warm, and heavy on the groove. Burning Spear’s cut gives the riddim its best-known voice, while the instrumental work from Cedric Brooks and the Brentford players adds the kind of dubby, horn-led character that made so many Studio One rhythms last.