Jamaican music and culture features strongly in this amusing discussion..
Really enjoying this crucial twofer re issue CD from Gregory Isaac’s.
The original album expanded with extended mixes, DJ Cuts and the companion Leggo Dub album.
Nice remastering bounces out of the speakers..
Check it..
Whatever happened to artists and bands with a message and something to say, especially in these troubled times?
Thank God for Steel Pulse!
Reggae album of the year?
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Dedicated to Trump, Johnson and the NHS
And this one straight to Trumps head..
Another essential re issue from Pressure Sounds..
I’ve got George Faith’s To Be A Lover on a Black Swan 12", with The Upsetters’ ‘Rastaman Shuffle’ on the B side. Also by George Faith, bought around the same time (1977) - ‘All the Love I’ve Got/So Fine’, ‘I’ve Got the Groove/Diana’, ‘Midnight Hour/Turn Back the Hands of Time’. Great stuff. I’ve still got loads of 12" singles from around that time - must dig them out sometime as some seem to be quite scarce. One of my favourites is ‘Groovy Situation/Groovy Dub’ by Keith Rowe (Black Swan/Lee Perry again).
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Great stuff! Do dig em out
Hope you all had a skankin’ great xmas and wishing you a smokin’ new year..
That was the first Gappy Ranks album I ever bought. A great old school sound.
I have bought a few more, namely:
A mixed bag, but probably the best being “Thanks & Praise” however “Pure Badness” is up there. 
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Indeed Hamiltonz, as you probably know many of the tracks produced by Peckings who utilise original Treaure Isle and Studio One riddim tracks with current artists. Most notably perhaps with the excellent On Bond Street album from back in the day with Bitty McLean.
https://www.peckingsrecords.com/pages/about
Love Alpha Blondy, first heard Jerusalem unusually at my local HiFi Dealer Jeffries HiFi in Brighton. I walked in one morning to hear this being played as a demo record and put a massive smile on my face, still moves.
This from Etana is proving popular here at Dread mansions..
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417 posts in and as far as I remember no mention of Toots Hibbert.
With the Maytals released classic albums from the Ska era - Never Grow Old - through the 70’s - Funky Kingston, Reggae Got Soul etc
Post millennium Toots collaborated with a wide range of “Guest” artists and admirers including Bonnie Rait, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Bootsy Collins, Willie Nelson, Keef Richard’s and closer to home Ken Boothe, Marcia Griffiths, Bunny Wailer, Shaggy and others.
I passed on the album originally, but revisited it this weekend after picking up a nice used copy for a song. It’s a very entertaining set if a bit of a mixed bag. Predictably for me I find the updating of some of the songs with other Reggae artists to work best.
A truly essential CD for anyone remotely interested in the history of Jamaican music.
Alpha Boys School was founded in the late 1800’s, initially as a school for “wayward youth”. Here pupils were schooled in discipline and music by Roman Catholic Nuns, most notably Sister Ignatius.
Many future great musicians were taught their, even if your not familiar with Jamaican music, Jazz fans will recognise internationally renowned artists like Joe Harriott, Dizzy Reece, Eddie Tan Tan Thornton. Also here are early recordings from foundation Jamaican musicians like Rico, Don Drummond, Tommy McCook, Bertie King, Cedric I’m Brooks, Lester Sterling, Bobby Ellis and more
The material is mostly Jazz and early Jamaican RnB and Ska.
Excellent SQ too
New Horace Andy form Mad Professors Ariwa Laboratories..