{"product_id":"groundation-hebron-gate","title":"Groundation - Hebron Gate [2LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eHebron Gate is the record that made it possible to no longer consider a Californian reggae group as a curiosity, a 2002 album which earned comparisons with the true classics of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGroundation began at Sonoma State University, of all universities, built by Harrison Stafford around a genuine obsession with roots reggae rather than a pastiche of it, and with this third album they had the credibility to prove it: The Congos and Don Carlos, both from a serious lineage of reggae's founding era, appear throughout the album, giving the record a legitimacy that few American groups in this genre achieve. What Groundation added was their own instinct to stretch the songs with jazz harmonies and horn arrangements without ever losing the underlying one-drop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJah Jah Know carries the album's clearest spiritual weight, a brass-driven meditation that never rushes to make its point. Babylon Rule Dem morphs into something closer to protest, Silver Tongue Show lets the band's jazz tendencies take over for long, patient stretches, and Weeping Pirates closes with the kind of slow-paced dub vibe that made that band's shows legendary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than twenty years later, it's still the album people cite when they need to explain why Groundation is part of the conversation with reggae greats, not just next to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinylestore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67910335365197,"sku":"3760248837390","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0796\/9131\/7325\/files\/4458279-3449378.jpg?v=1794005699","url":"https:\/\/vinylestore.shop\/products\/groundation-hebron-gate","provider":"Vinylestore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}