Founding members of I-Town Records, John Brown's Body, play rootical folk music from Ithaca, New York. "All Time" was acclaimed by fans and critics around the world as the real deal in roots reggae. With lo-fi yet cutting edge production compared to the mix master Lee Perry and sweet soulful songs and playing, "All Time" stands for All Time! Includes the song "Vanity" which was featured in the HBO movie "Substitute 2". This CD also was included in Rolling Stone magazine's Alternative Top Ten chart in September of 1997. This is the beginning of something big... Still the #1 seller for I-Town records!

AMG album Pick: Before signing on with the Shanachie label and going relatively big-time, this Ithaca, NY-based roots reggae band made this remarkably well-realized and nicely produced debut album. The band's distinguishing characteristics are already well established here: an overriding concern with lyrics of spiritual and social uplift, a rhythmic style based on the classical pre-dancehall reggae of the mid-'70s, and an explicit sonic debt to such great Jamaican studios of the period as Dynamic and, especially, Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark; in fact, "Vanity," on which bandleader Kevin Kinsella sings in a sweet falsetto while the drums push their way through tight compression and guitars splash around in a puddle of reverb, sounds like a specific tribute to Perry's work with singer Junior Murvin. The loping rockers beat of "Rockstone" leads into a dark and mystical one-drop groove on "Superstar," and "Give Some Love" drops a little steel guitar into the mix to add a strangely countrified element to the mix. Though maybe not quite as great overall as Among Them, All Time stands easily with the best of this fine band's recorded work. 
- Review by Rick Anderson