Greetings,

The dog days of August? No! The Jah Days of Jah-gust. When it’s hot and everything is dried out. The AC is maxed and the lawn is barely green, how do you break away?

Grab a cold one of choice and settle in for 3 hours of riddim showers! Fall soon come!

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-gust 13, 2016: High-lights

Set 1: Seven Leaf 7″ Jamaican Jukebox

• Michael Smith – Give me a Little Dub Music; Mi Cyaan Believe It (Mango) ’82 US vinyl, dub poet
• Israel Vibration/Roots Radics – Prejudice; Dub the Rock (RAS) ’95 Dub Album of the Hour
• Stranger Cole & Gladdy w/ the Gaytones – One Toke Over the Line (Gay Feet) 7” Brewer & Shipley gospel cover

<One Toke over the line Sweet Negus>

• Lincoln Grant – Marijuana; 7” (Big A) ‘80
• Frankie Paul – Weed Without Seed; 7” (Techniques) Sinsemilla = weed w/o seed
• Ronnie Davis – Kaya; 7” (Attack) ’78: Marley cover
• Dawn & Christine – Free Marijuana; 7” (Thompson Sound)
• Prince Buster – Minister of Ganja; 7” (Prince Buster’s Record Shack pre)

<Prince Buster – Jamaica’s Minister of Ganja & Space Exploration>

Set 2: Wailers Family Tree

• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Selassie Is the Chapel; (JAD) Request: ’68 Orioles doo wop/gospel cover: Wailers Family Tree Set
• Peter Tosh – Mystery Babylon; Jamaica (Putomayo) rare single
• Bunny Wailer – Cool Runnings; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’81 Best of
• Bob Marley & the Wailers – War; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’76: rare unreleased alternate mix – added one verse at the end

Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica – 27+ Years

• The Selecter – Celebrate the Bullet; Celebrate the Bullet (Chrysalis) ’81: 2 Tone ska w/ Pauline on the vox
• The Kingstonians – Winey, Winey; Sufferer (Attack) ‘70
• Jimmy Cliff – Club Paradise; Club Paradise (Columbia) ’86 soundtrack
• Reggae George – Reggae Collie; King Tubby on the Mix vol. 2 (Original)  ’84 herbtune
• Gregory Isaacs – Changing Dub; In Dub: Dub a de Number One (Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Hour

Set 4:

• Zap Pow – Nice, Nice Time; Trojan Story (Trojan) ’72
• Candy McKenzie & the Upsetters – Long Enough; Return of Sound System Scratch (Pressure Sounds) Lee Perry prod’n
• Martin Campbell – No Farmer; Historical Tracks (Channel One UK)
• Wayne Smith – Time is a Momment in Space (sic); 10” (Jammy$) ‘84

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

• Casselberry & DuPree’ – Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister?; City Down (Icebergg) ’86 Milwaukee
• Tanglewood – Reggae Music Sweet; Rise & Shine (Creole) ’84 Fr.
• Aswad feat. Vin Gordon & Michael “Bammie” Rose – Warrior Charge; Babylon Soundtrack (Takoma) ’80 UK – trombone instrumental
• The Splenders – Sometimes Coffee; Your Jamaican Girl (Studio One) ’71 JA over “Throw Me Corn”
• Clint Eastwood – Ganja Baby; Jah  Lights Shining (Vista Sounds) UK ’84 UK

Set 6: Rockers do Reggae

• Bob Dylan – God Gave Names to All the Animals; Slow Train Coming (Columbia) ’79 nursery rhyme
• Lijadu Sisters – Bobby; Danger (Knitting Factory) ’76 Nigerian sisters
• Flo and Eddie – Happy Together; Jah Flo & Prince Edward I (Rhino) ’81 of the Turtles
• War – Why Can’t We Be Friends; Why Can’t We Be Friends (United Artists) ‘75
• Israelites – Ganja Melody; Sensi Dub Volume 8 (Original) Dub Album of the Hour

Set 7:

• Denise Darlington – War No Right; Studio One Women (Soul Jazz/Studio One)
• Laurel Aitken – Skinhead Train; Rise & Fall (Unicorn) ’69 rock steady
• The Beat – Ranking Full Stop; Dance Craze (2 Tone) ’80 live 2 Tone ska
• Tapper Zukie – Marcus; MPLA (Virgin Front Line) ’78 dj over Mighty Diamonds
• Sly Dunbar – A Who Say; Hitbound – The Revolutionary Sound of Channel One (Heartbeat) ’78 instrumental

Set 8: Mutant Dub

• Orange Blossom – Nafsi (My Soul); Everything Must Change (Wrasse) 2004 w/ female Arabic vox
• Bomb the Bass feat. Spikey Tee – Darkheart (7” mix); clear (Quango) ’95 UK
• The Playgroup – Going for a Song; Epic Sound Battles vol. 2 (ON U Sound) ’83 UK instrumentals
• Succulent – Freshly; Natural Progression 12” EP (Worship) US vinyl
• Zion Train – One Consciousness; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK trance