Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread

Marking the first album to feature Lee Perry's own eccentric vocals on every track, 'Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread' is a landmark 1978 document from his Black Ark studio. The production is dense, experimental, and uniquely claustrophobic, layering unconventional sounds like spray cans and crying babies over the rock-solid grooves of his studio band, The Upsetters. Perry’s idiosyncratic lyrical themes of food, ganja, and spirituality, combined with the album’s eventual rejection by Island Records, solidify its status as a definitive and deeply personal statement from his most creative period.