Linton Haughton - East Of Handsworth (2026 Reissue) Format:Black Vinyl 12" and two more gifted guitarists

and two more gifted guitarists in Paul Gregory (Lanterns On The Lake) and Jonathan Wilson all contribute

Jerome Kern and others

Coming from a lyric sung on album closer “Write Lightly”—a narrative about the importance of self-expression in writing being scrubbed away by “professional” concerns—many of the characters singer/bassist Mondal fleshed out here are outcasts

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It's a rarity in the German beat scene -- unpolished

Linton Haughton - East Of Handsworth (2026 Reissue) Format:Black Vinyl 12" and two more gifted guitaristsThe late Humphrey Linton Haughton loved making music. Indeed, he continued to record after retiring and relocating from Birmingham to Florida, but such were the struggles of British reggae artists that in all those decades of creating music he only managed to get three twelve inch singles released. Two of those singles were on the Birmingham based Shield label which, just to set the record straight, was categorically nothing to do with the other