Perfectly timed to provide a Caribbean reprieve from a harsh winter comes another time capsule from Toronto's hidden history of soul and reggae music. Innocent Youths, a hard-to-find 1977 reggae album by Earth, Roots and Water, is the latest album reissued by Light in the Attic Records in its Jamaica to Toronto series, which unearths the unjustifiably over-looked musical contributions of the city's Caribbean immigrants over the years.......

Photos courtesy of Light in the Attic Records The landscape of soul music, more than any other genre, has been littered with talented artists with unfulfilled careers spent in obscurity, grinding out appearances in dingy bars in the search for the elusive radio hit. Such was the fate of Jay Douglas, The Mighty Pope and many other pioneers of Toronto’s soul and reggae scene in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists—who are reuniting for......