Justin Hinds & the Dominoes were one of the most popular vocal groups during the ska and rocksteady era, but
Hinds was a country boy at heart, and with the rise of reggae he returned to his rural home. Thus the group disappeared from view for most of the first half of the '70s, but by 1975, producer L. "Jack Ruby" Lindo coaxed
Hinds to Kingston, and the trio back into the studio. The musical scene had shifted dramatically during the interim, with the pusillanimous freneticism of early reggae slowing into the denser and more atmospheric sound of roots. And here,
Hinds and company were right at home. The success of the sessions at Federal and Channel One studios can be gauged by the fact that over half the tracks on
Jezebel were initially released as popular singles in Jamaica, while the recut of the trio's 1964 smash "Carry Go Bring Come" mashed up sound systems in the UK. That remodel was worth the price of admission alone, taking a sizzling ska song with a Rastafarian message, and placing it where it belonged, within a deeply dubby roots context, while the brass section rang out overhead. The retread of "Save a Bread," which appears under the title "What You Don't Know" is very nearly as good.