<Can’t roll a spliff on an .mp3>
Greetings,
Last hour of Smile Jamaica Juggling wax with the monitors cranked to 11 in the Studio at KRCL. Booming a recent vintage 45 from a So Cal roots group called the lions.
Their lyric talks about going back to the roots because: “you can’t roll a spliff pon your .mp3:
Original vinyl issues of Bob Marley’s Rastaman Vibration hard “burlap” ridges for that 420 ritual tradition.
That’s why my slogan is: No digital for I ‘n’ I
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-gust 20, 2016 Annotated Playlist:
Set 1
- Zap Pow – This Is Reggae Music; Reggae Rules (Rhino) ’80 US vinyl
- Augustus Pablo – A Java (Instrumental version); Message Music (Pressure Sounds) digital productions of the 80s/90s; Dub Album of the Hour
- Calvin Stuart – The Alphabet Song; The Sound of Channel One: King Tubby Connection (Motion) A-Z from the Bible
- Foreign Exchange – Damned If I Do; Occam’s Razor (First Step) ’99 NY
- Glen Brown – Clensiness (sic) Dub; The Way to Mt. Zion (ROIR) dub
- UB40 – Mi Spliff; Credit to the Nation (bootleg) ’86 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement, Europe ’86 live
- The Congo’s – Rasta Congo Man; 10” (Congo’s) 2006 update of Curly Locks riddim
Set 2:
- Bob Marley & the Wailers – Johnny Was; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) ’76; unreleased alternate album mix
<Johnny Was alternate mix>
- Abyssinians – Say It Again; Reunion (Artists Only) ‘98
- Ayo – Help Is Coming; Ayo (Interscope) 2006 Nigerian-German female
- Horace Andy – Why Oh Why; 10” (Hitbound) ‘83
Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica 26+ Years
- Twinkle Brothers – It Dread All Over; Live (Genes) Reggae Sunsplash ‘82
- Mutabaruka –Whey Mi Belong?; Check It! (Alligator) ’83 dub poet
- Misty in Roots – Lifeboat; Wise and Foolish (Kaz) ’82 UK
- Joy White – Tribulation; United Dreadlocks (Rhino UK) ‘77
- Israel Vibration & Soul Syndicate – Dub Worries; Israel Dub (Greensleeves) ‘78
Set 4:
- Rhoda Dakar – Easy Life; Cleaning in Another Woman’s Kitchen (Moon Ska) 2007 2 Tone ska singer, Bodysnatchers acoustic update
- Bunny Wailer – Rockers; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’79: best of roots era
- Trevor Hartley – Smoke & Chill; Hartical (Jove) ’94 UK herbtune
- Barry Brown – Living as a Brother; 10” (Trojan)
Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital
- Leroy Smart – Propaganda; Burning Sampler (Burning Sounds) ’78 UK red vinyl: Vinyl is Vital Set
- Full Experience feat. Aura Lewis – Young, Gifted & Broke; At Midnite (Blue Moon) Fr. EP – female vox to Marcia Griffiths “Young, Gifted and Black”
- Joe Higgs – One Man (Kouchie Pipe); Unity is Power (One Stop) ’79 UK
- George Faith – Please Stay; Raver’s Rock vol. 2 (Vista Sounds) ’84 UK
- Ijahman Levi – Master Ideas +; Ijahman & Friends (Jahmani) ’79 UK
Set 6:
- Peter Tosh – Coming in Hot (Live); Honorary Citizen (Columbia) box set
- Zema feat. Mark Wonder & the Gladiators – Overcome Good with Evil; Overcome (Melchizedek) So Cal female vox
- The Green – Transparent People; Ways and Means (Easy Star) 2011 Jah-waiian
- Wayne & Johnny – Ackee Monkey; 10” (Hitbound)
Set 7: Jamaican Jukebox 7″ 45s
- Cedric ‘Im Brooks – Theme From Shaft; 7” (Soul Jazz) soul cover
- The Lions – This Generation; 7” (Lions Bread) LA group
- Hopeton Lewis – Dreadlocks Chalice; 7” (Thorough Bred) ’75 herb tune
- Dhaima – Jah Jah I; 7” (Paradise) ’77 UK
Set 8: Mutant Dub Set
- Soom T – Boom Shiva; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2008 female weedstepper out of Glasgow, Scotland: Mutant Dub Set
- Knatty P – We Know; Universal Roots – U.K. Reggae Stars (Universal Egg) 2008 UK
- Clive Hunt & the Dub Dancers – Bagdad in Dub; Clive Hunt & the Dub Dancers (Makasound) 2008 Fr.
- Sevendub – U & Dem (High Altitude dub); Dub Club Edition (Collision) 2006 Germ.
- Bucolic – Mo’Style; Dzyan Blood (BSI) 2000 US
- Bally Sagoo – Funky Rickshaw Dub; Pro Cannabis 4 (Dope Media) 2001 Hindi dub
Smile Jamaica 