Roots Tonic was the name of the three piece rock-reggae band best known as Matisyahu's backing band during live shows and studio recordings. The band was made up of

Aaron Dugan Aaron Dugan is a guitarist, composer and songwriter originally from Philadelphia who resides in Brooklyn. Dugan has performed and recorded with a wide variety of musicians and producers including Roots Tonic, Matisyahu, Trevor Hall, Bootsy Collins ...

(

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and sounds), Josh Werner (

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and

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, also co-writes songs with Matisyahu), and

Jonah David Jonah David (born October 30, 1977) is a drummer/percussionist who has performed and recorded with a wide variety of musicians including Matisyahu, Costello, Roots Tonic, Josh Werner, Bill Laswell, Braindance, Joshua Nelson, King Django and the ...

(

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and percussion). They have recorded two studio albums and a live album with Matisyahu, but the name Roots Tonic was first mentioned on the inside cover of Matisyahu's 2006 major label album ''

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'' and its dub version, ''Youth Dub''. ''Youth'' producer Bill Laswell was so impressed with the band that he invited it to record a dub album with him. The result, ''Roots Tonic meets Bill Laswell'', was released in mid-2006 on Reach Out International Records. In 2007, first

, and shortly after Josh Werner left Matisyahu's live band, which meant the end of Roots Tonic as well. In 2009/2010, Dub Trio became Root Tonic's successor to support Matisyahu live on stage. In 2011, Bill Laswell and Josh Werner produced

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's studio album "Rise Again"; Aaron Dugan plays guitar on select tracks.

Album discography

Solo

with Matisyahu

External links

myspace page
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