Greetings,

Just could not resist the temptation to “rinse-out” maximum herbtunes to end Cannabis Service Month

4 hours and 20 minutes online. Plus 3 hours during Apr. 18.  Give me MOAR!

Wanted to focus thematically on the various theme sets I tend to play.

• Seven Leaves pon the Wailers Family Tree
• Roots Dawtas – dissing Bill Clinton
• 7″ Jamaican Jukebox Canna-bliss
• Vinyl is V-Ital Marijuana Wax
• Best of Smile Jamaica Year 1 (1989-90) Herb jams: Don’t pee in my garden, or mushroom will grow!
• Mutant Dub 420 Space Dust – UFOria

Holdovers! Never Leftovers!

<High-lights of the April 25 Ark-Ive; 75 sec.>

So before I pivot in a new direction, sip your cup one more time

<Cannabis History Lesson: Sip a Cup; 13 sec.>

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives April. 25, 2015

Annotated Playlist: Soundbytes, captions, photos, Reggae/Cannabis History Lessons

Set 1:

• Bunny Wailer – This Train; Blackheart Man (Mango) ’76 US vinyl; Woody Guthrie cover

<Woody Guthrie Stylee; 20 sec.>

• Reggae on Top All Stars – Cutting Dub; Chalice Dub Part One (Reggae on Top) ’95 UK mutant dub; Dub Album of the Week

<Psalm 18: Verse 8; 25 sec.>

• Monty Montgomery – Seeds; Seeds (Red Oak) Atlanta vinyl
• Aisha – Don’t Tell Me No Lies; Raise Your Voice (Twinkle) ‘95
• 10 Ft. Ganja Plant – Wailin’; bushrock (ROIR) 2009 Upstate NY; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
• Idren Natural & Seventh Sense – Sip-a-Cup; 12” (Jah Works) 2007 UK; mutant dub “Sip a cup” = smoke the chalice

 Set 2: Seven Leaves pon the Wailers Family Tree

• Peter Tosh – Legalize It; Talking Revolution (Pressure Sounds); KZEL Eugene, Oregon acoustic

<Peter talks about being beaten by cops; 13 sec.>

<Peter at KZEL. Eugene, Oregon; 35 sec.>

• Bunny Wailer – Cease Fire; Roots Radics Rockers Reggae (Shanachie) ’83: Ceasefire and light the chalice!
• Ronnie Davis – Kaya; Jah Live (Music Club) Bob cover
• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Easy Skankin’; Rehearsals bootleg ’78 bootleg

 Set 3: Roots Dawtas Set

• Ganja Woman – Light Up Your Spliff; Pro Cannabis 4 (EFA) out of Germany; Roots Dawta Herb Set

<Slick Willy – 1996; 19 sec.>

<Slick Willy weed hypocrite; 9 sec.>

Ganja Woman:

Come on Mr. President, smoke the chronic. This time inhale! It beats gin & tonic!

• Sister Carol – Wicked Collie; Jah Disciple (RAS) ’89 DC
• Wendy Shaw – Sensimilla Crisis; Sing Out (Issachar) LA

Set 4: 7″ Jamaican Jukebox 45 RPM

• Frankie Paul – Bag a Collie; 7” (Prince Jazzbo Music); 7” update of Sugar Minott Oh Mr. D.C.
• Ranking Devon – Pass the Chalice in a Circle; 7” (All Nation)
• Short Man – Light Your Spliff; 7” (High Music)
• Sister Nancy – Telephone Challice; 7” (Volcano)

Set 5: Vinyl is V-Ital Herb-wax

• Doret Myers – One Draw; Reggae Hits of the 80’s (Joe Gibbs); ’83 Opa-Locka, Florida
• Max Romeo – Quarter Pound of Ishence; Open the Iron Gate (Liberty)  ’78 Nashville
• Ranking Joe – Natty the Collie Smoker; Weakheart Fadeaway (Greensleeves) ‘78 UK

<How The Clash were almost The Weakhearts; 27 sec.>

• Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus; Rally Round (Shanachie) ’85 Ho-Ho Kus, New Jersey; Best of

 Set 6: Best of Smile Jamaica (Year 1: 1989-90) 

• Johnny Osbourne – Mushroom; Fally Ranking (Greensleeves) ’80

<Don’t pee in my garden or mushroom will grow! 8 sec.>

• Black Uhuru – Puff She Puff; Red (Mango) ‘81

<Black Uhuru – the #1 favorite of Pre-Smile Jamaica Reggae; 1986; 12 sec.>

• Barry Brown – Sensimilla; Far East (Hitbound) ‘82
• Charlie Chaplin – Chalice Burn; Take Two! (RAS) ’89 DC; recorded live in the studio like at a dancehall

Set 7: Herb Free Set

<Let the smoke clear!…>

<…Cuz the Studio is cloudy!>

• Zema – Hit and Run; Overcome (Melchizedek) 2006; female artist out of LA
• Black Slate – Thin Line Between Love and Hate; Amigo: Best of (Ensign) ’81; Persuaders soul cover

<Black Slate and Chrissie Hynde; 14 sec.>

• The Pioneers – Slip Away; From the Beginning (Jet Star) ’70; Clarence Carter? Soul cover
• Ethiopians – Train to Glory; Original Hits and More (Trojan) ‘68

Set 8: Mutant Dub 420 Space Dust

<Turn up your Subwoofer!; 8 sec.>

• Soom T – They Call It Pot; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2010 female weedstepper out of Glasgow, Scotland
• Aldubb Meets Ras Perez – Poppy; Aldubb Meets Ras Perez (One Drop) 2010 Germany
• Mankind Liberation Front – Dope Dream; Grass Soundtrack (Mercury) 2000
• Armagideon  – Grow More Dub; Through the Haze (Dubhead) ‘98 UK
• Dr. Israel & Brooklyn Jungle Sound System – Sensi Man; Black Rose Liberation (Baraka) 2001 Brooklyn
• Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blonde (French Version); CD Single (ESL) ’98 DC; herb flavor
• The Archives feat. Ras Puma; Sensibility (The Archives) DC 2012