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One of the things you engage, being an editor and
writer, is contacts with interesting people in the
Reggae Industry. And in these contacts, you
sometimes hear things about people that you
wouldn't otherwise know, as you hear them
"off-the-record", as they say.
One well known Reggae artist told the Dubroom about a
conversation with Yabby You, the Reggae Legend
also known as the Iriginal Yesus Dread. In this
conversation, Yabby had expressed how the label
Blood and Fire was extremely good to him.
Just in case you're new to Reggae, quite
possible as the Dubroom introduces the music to a
new audience indeed: Blood and Fire is the name of
the Reggae Label that re-released the incredible
album "Jesus Dread" with the works of
Yabby You. To name just one out of many incredible
re-releases.
The fate of most Reggae legends is quite
dramatic. For where most of them should be
considered for the true Originators of Reggae that
they really are, they will not be able to harvest
the good fruits of what they have sown as other
people will make money with what they have
started.
And this is where Blood and Fire stepped in,
somewhere during the late 1980's, early 1990's.
Something was going to change, now!
 Founded by the singer of the well known
band Simply Red, and under the guidance of Reggae connoisseur
Steve Barrow, B&F has introduced some of the
best Reggae classics to an audience that would
otherwise never heard of Tappa Zukie in Dub, to
name another one out of many.
Just recently, though, news has reached the
doorstep of the Dubroom that the label is no more.
Fortunately, this news is yet to be confirmed
and so there is still hope.
However, when artists like Twilight Circus and
other credible persons publicly state that the
label "is no more", something is going
on and we have to report on this. (LINK)
It seems like Steve Barrow, the man responsible
for the musical contents and selections of the
Blood and Fire re-releases, has recently started
putting out material by himself, and rumors are
that these actions are related to a current state
of the label itself.
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