August 2006 finds the band after just NATIONALLY releasing their 4th album "CRUCIAL" in MAY and touring constantly to support the release of the album through I-Tunes,Rhapsody,stores,and Cdbaby.com,etc... with shows in 22 different states for the tour and countless amounts of cities, the band has gained a nice following over the U.S. and are now recieving attention across the world too. Recent touring and shows have included playing with up and coming reggae artist Joseph Israel several times,playing the Wakarusa festival, where the band exploded onto the scene with a very well recieved hour long set,opening again for the MARLEYS and this time BUNNY WAILER the only living member of the 3 original Wailing Wailers which contained Bob Marley and Peter Tosh at the Kansas City reggae festival. Jah Roots will also headline the Tulsa,OK reggae festival this year as well as perform at the Dayton,OH reggae festival. The band will also be touring California in October playing the famous Whiskey A GoGo, Winstons with the very RASpected Isaac Haile Selassie and are working on The Belly Up tavern with Wadi Gad.Album sales are great and we expect JAH ROOTS to go farther than they ever have with every new album they put out !! -B.M. 2006- To sum up their 2005 bio quickly, Jah Roots started the year 2005 by opening for reggae legends Luciano and Dean Frazier, then they toured with Triple Grammy Award winning artists Damian and Stephen Marley for the "Welcome to Jamrock Tour" as the only opening band on the Missouri leg of the tour. Also they provided opening act and backing band duties for Prezident Browns "State of the Union" tour in November 2005 through the mid-west, to add were again the only opening act for Sublime tribute band Badfish on their tour of Missouri. Also releasing 2 full length albums "More Herbs For Tha Youth" and "Babylon Weak Heart featuring SkillinJah" in 2005. Both are professionally reviewed at http://reggae-reviews.com/jahroots.html with highly regarded reviews. They also recorded a compilation album featuring JAH ROOTS riddims with other artists providing different vocal tracks for GanJah Records their own independant record label the band also started last year as well.Nicco, Mister Kali, Carlos Jones, Mystic Vision, Lorna Bennet, IsoulJahs, Ras Matthew, Baddaskat, Highah Seekah, and many others were featured on the project.