Release date: 15-11-2005 (originally release in 1968)

2005 Blue Note 10-track vinyl LP limied edition,- This reissue contains not only Hill’s original LP, but also a previously unreleased session from four months prior. On this earlier session, an entirely different lineup plays three of the tunes from Grass Roots, along with two numbers from deep within the vault  “MC,â€� a tribal 12/8 blues, and “Love Nocturne,â€� an angular quasi-ballad. - sealed in colour sleeve,

Tracks:
01. Grass Roots    
02. Venture Inward    
03. Mira  
04. Soul Special    
05. Bayou Red   
06. MC  
07. Venture Inward   
08. Soul Special    
09. Bayou Red
10. Love Nocturne 

Grass Roots is “inside� compared to Hill’s more representative Blue Note masterpiece, Point of Departure. “Venture Inward� and “Bayou Red� are the most advanced pieces, while the calypso “Mira� and the boogaloo “Soul Special� traverse more familiar Blue Note terrain. The title track, with its deliberately square melody, is an excellent sample of Hill?s fractured, fragmented style.
The alternate takes and new tracks are less energetic, although Woody Shaw sounds more in his element than does Lee Morgan. And whereas Booker Ervin cooks a variegated stew containing traces of Trane, Dexter, and Johnny Griffin, Frank Mitchell sounds almost like a carbon copy of Wayne Shorter. Ponder’s tasty licks are in the style of early Pat Martino