Youth of Eglington - Black Uhuru (Red, 1981)

When we started to dig a little deeper, we learned that there was more to reggae than Bob Marley. Black Uhuru was a discovery of my friend Michael Storch. Officially my longest serving pal, I've known Michael since Grade 3. He was always a little odd, but charmingly so. Somewhere along the way Michael discovered that you could borrow an unlimited number of records from the Southgate Public Library at any one time. Every two weeks he would return home with a massive stack of vinyl, more often than not chosen by the cover art. Things he liked would be copied to cassette (he still has a substantial collection of cassettes built through this approach) and played in his father's white (?) Toyota as we cruised around looking for places to drink coffee. I'm pretty sure this is how Black Uhuru entered our universe. Michael lives in Montreal and remains obsessed by Patrik Fitzgerald, one of the oddest of his odd discoveries.