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'''Steve Barrow''' (born 29 September 1945) is a British [[reggae]] historian, [[archivist]], [[curator]], writer and producer.<ref name="midnightraver">[http://midnightraverblog.com/2013/03/29/masta-selecta-reggae-resurrecta-steve-barrow-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-blood-fire/ Steve Barrow Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807172133/http://midnightraverblog.com/2013/03/29/masta-selecta-reggae-resurrecta-steve-barrow-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-blood-fire/ |date=7 August 2013 }} -– ''Midnight Raver'' website (29 March 2013). Retrieved 21 April 2013.</ref>

While at [[Honest Jon's]] record shop, he met Peter Dalton, with whom he later collaborated on writing ''The Rough Guide to Reggae''. Between 1979 and 1980, he was hired freelance by [[Island Records]] to compile a series of vinyl releases: ''Intensified'', ''More Intensified'', ''Catch The Beat'' and ''The Blue Beat Years''.<ref name="midnightraver" /> From the 1970s and up to 1992, Barrow compiled many albums and wrote liner notes for [[Trojan Records]] in [[London]].

In 1993, Barrow co-founded, along with [[Mick Hucknall]], the [[Blood and Fire (record label)|Blood and Fire]] [[record label]], which specialises in reissuing older [[roots reggae]] and spiritual dubwise [[Music of Jamaica|Jamaican music]].<ref>[http://www.reggaenews.co.uk/interviews/steve_barrow.asp Steve Barrow Interview] -– ''Reggae News'' (Summer 2002). {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112095545/http://www.reggaenews.co.uk/interviews/steve_barrow.asp |date=12 January 2014}}. Retrieved 24 April 2013.</ref> Barrow's extensive knowledge of reggae was the catalyst for the creation of the Jamaican Reggae Archive Project which is funded and owned by [[Chris Blackwell]] with Barrow as ''de facto'' curator. Between 1994 and 1995, Barrow (along with [[Don Letts]] and Rick Elwood) conducted a series of interviews with Jamaican artists for the archive that aimed to preserve the history of the music. The interviews and other related material were an important factor in the writing of the book ''The Rough Guide to Reggae''.<ref name="modculture">[http://www.modculture.co.uk/interview-doug-hadgraft-meets-steve-barrow/ Steve Barrow Interview] -– ''Mod Culture'' website (10 March 2012). Retrieved 21 April 2013.</ref> The reggae author [[David Katz (author)|David Katz]] credits Barrow's personal recommendation to [[Trevor Wyatt]] of Island Records for his involvement in the compiling of the 1997 [[Lee "Scratch" Perry]] CD set ''Arkology''.<ref>[http://www.upsetter.net/scratch/words/outerview_sleeper_katz.htm David Katz Interview] -– ''Eternal Thunder'' (February 2001). Interview by Mick Sleeper. Retrieved 18 June 2013.</ref> In 2004, Barrow co-founded the reggae reissue label [[Hot Pot Music]].

*''The Rough Guide to Reggae'' with [[Peter Dalton]], 1997 for the first edition, [[Rough Guides Limited]], {{ISBN|1-85828-247-0}}

*''King Jammy's'', with [[Beth Lesser]], 2002, [[ECW Press]], UK, {{ISBN|1-55022-525-1}}