Been listening to African Head Charge today - Songs of Praise is still a classic, though I like the experimental bleakness of the early stuff too, most of which I still have on vinyl - Environmental Studies is a blast. I remain a huge fan of Augustus Pablo - I regard King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Getting back to what Banjiman said about it not being British Trad. - I grew up in multi-ethnic / multi-cultural UK so I'd say West Indian traditions are as British as anything else - long absorbed & entirely naturalised - with genuine roots to boot. So British Trad? Yes - very much so. Folk? Nah - not according to Mudcatland anyway, where music only becomes folk when its part of a self-conscious revival of something that never was.