<Is It Rolling, Bob?>

Greetings,

All my heroes are named Bob: Marley, Crumb and Dylan. Congrats to Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan. The first popular music artist to be chosen. Well deserving.

So I start off Smile Jamaica with a 3 song Reggae Tribute to his Bobness!

<Winner, winner Nobel Prize chicken dinner! 33 sec.>

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 15, 2016: Annotated Playlist – photos, captions, soundbytes, Reggae History Lessons; 51 sec.

• Bob Dylan Tribute
• Wailers Family Tree
• Vinyl is Vital
• Jah-loween Stylee
• Disco Mix 10″/12″
• Roots Dawtas
• UFO-ria inna Mutant Dub Stylee

Intro: 33 sec.

Set 1: From one Bob to another: Dylan Tribute – Nobel Winner

<Amazing achievement. Nobel deserving; 52 sec.>

• Jimmy London – Ride On; Welcome to My World (Burning Sounds) ’78 UK vinyl
• Sould Syndicate – Black Pride – Dub; King Tubby & Friends – Sound System Dub Vol. (Original) JA vinyl, 1975-78: Dub Album of the Hour
• Bob Dylan – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door; Live at Budokan (Columbia): ’78 Reggae Tribute to Nobel Laureate, Bob Dylan
• Bob Dylan – Man Gave Names to All the Animals; Slow Train Coming (Columbia) ’79 Gospel Grammy winner
• Bob Dylan – Jokerman; Infidels (Columbia) ’83 Sly & Robbie on the riddims
• Peter Broggs – Internaitonal Farmer; Rastafari Liveth! (RAS) ‘82
• African Pearl – Zion Bound; 10” (Ariwa) 2005 UK: female roots

Set 2: Wailers Family Tree

• Peter Touch &  Hugh Roy – Rightful Ruler; Honorary Citizen: Jamaican Singles (Columbia) ’69 box set

<Peter Touch – hands on communicator; 18 sec.>

• Bunny Wailer – Dance Hall Music; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’87 roots comp
• Rita Marley – Who Can Be Against Us; Harambe (Shanachie)  ‘82

<Harambe – Kenyan revolutionary slogan: Pull together!>

• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Jamming (Long Version); Exodus (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’77 bonus track

<Dessert before dinner: dub before the vox – Jamming; 18 sec.>

Set 3:

<Request: The one album that led to Smile Jamaica – Black Uhuru Anthem; 35 sec.>

• Black Uhuru – Black Uhuru Anthem; Anthem (Island) ’84 Night of the Living Dead, Request; 19 sec.

• Creation Rebel/New Age Steppers – Painstaker; Threat to Creation (Cherry Red/ON U Sound) ’81 dub to New Age Steppers cover of Michael Rose “Observe Life
• African Princess – Jah Children Cry; 12” (Jah Shaka) ’80 UK
• Scientist – Heavyweight Dub Champion (Greensleeves) ’80: Dub Album of the Hour

Set 4: Best of Smile Jamaica – 27 Years

• Yellowman – Morning Ride; One in a Million (Shanachie) ’84

<The Morning Ride – a different commute!; 25 sec.>

• Aisha – Evil Spirits; High Priestess (Ariwa) ‘88
• Barry Brown – Run Wicked Man; Far East (Hitbound) ‘81
• Keith Hudson – My Eyes Are Red (Unlreased Version); Brand (Pressure Sounds) ‘77

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

• Icarus – Land of Tarot; State of Mind (Russian Roulette) ’82 UK
• Earl Sixteen – Freedom; Heart of the Ark vol. 2 (Seven Leaf) Black Ark/Lee Perry prod’n
• Clint Eastwood – Sweet, Sweet Jamaica; Sex Education (Greensleeves) ’80 UK
• Tony Tuff – Born in the Ghetto; Presenting Mr. Tuff (Black Roots) ’81 JA
• Aura Lewis Meets Lee “Scratch” Perry – At Midnite; Full Experience (Blue Moon) Fr. EP – Black Ark prod’n

Set 6:

• Tino – Bats in My Belfrey Dub; Hallowe’en Dub (Tino’s) Jah-loween beats artist
• Yesca – Searchin’; Up in Smoke Soundtrack (Warner Bros)  ’78 herbal update of the Coasters 50 r & b
• Ther Herbaliser – The Hard Stuff; Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ninja Tune) 2002 UK mutant dub herb tune
• Version feat. Sista Widey – Put On; 10” (Webcam Hi Fi) 2007 Fr. mutant dub
• Black Roots Players – Redder Than Red; Ghetto-ology Dub (Easy Star) ’79 Dub Album of the Hour

Set 7: Jah-loween Stylee

• Black Survivors – Catch a Vampire; Nations of the World (Sword Lion) ’95 UK
• Garland Jeffreys feat. Big Youth – Graveyard Rock; Escape Artist (Epic) ’81 – NY bi-racial rocker

<Don’t get stoned on my tombstone! 25 sec.>

• Rupie Dan & Jennifer Gad feat. Macka B – Devil Dance; Solid Foundation (Flag) 1992
• Bomb the Bass feat. Sinead O’Connor & Benjamin Zephaniah; Empire; clear (Quango) ’95 UK mutant dubbers; Empire=Vampire

Set 8: UFO-ria: 38 sec.

• Audio Active – Space Children; Tokyo Space Cowboys (ON U Sound) ’94 Jah-pon
• Rockers Hi Fi – Dick From Outaspace; Rockers to Rockers (Gee Street) ’95 UK
• Disrupt – Asteroid Dub Force; Jahtarian Dubbers vol. 3 (Jahtari) Germ.
• Public Service Broadcasting– Gagarin; Beyond Saturn (Mojo)

<Yuri Gagarin, original Russian cosmonaut>

• Troubleman – Intergalactic You, Intergalactic Me; Far Out Spaced Odyssey (Far Out) 2010 Brazilian dubfunk instrumental