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After fronting leading Jamaican vocal trio, the Paragons throughout the late sixties, John Holt enjoyed a hugely successful solo career, notching up a slew of best-selling singles for an array of local producers. By the following decade, he was firmly established as Reggae music's most popular balladeer, although it was not until forming a partnership with London-based producer, Tony Ashfield in 1973 that he finally achieved his international breakthrough.

Their initial collaboration 'The Further You Look', became the best-selling UK Reggae album of the year, while their second collection went one better, spawning a series of popular singles and one of the biggest selling Jamaican music singles ever. Widely regarded as the greatest Pop-Reggae LP of all time, 1,000 Volts Of Holt combined the rhythms of the Jamaican ghetto with western arrangements and by so doing took the genre to a new level of sophistication.

Soon after its release, the singer's rendering of Kris Kristofferson's 'Help Me Make It Through The Night' peaked at number six in the Pop listings, while a year and thousands of sales later, the LP finally made it into the British album charts, a top 10 position denied only by the unregulated nature of Reggae music sales in the UK.

In addition to the dozen album tracks that originally comprised the 1,000 Volts album, this 2CD deluxe edition features many of their respective Jamaican mixes along with previously unreleased recordings for a follow-up collection. Digitally re-mastered from the original tapes, this seminal album never sounded or looked better.