Greetings,

So hot I worry if my record bag might start to melt black wax from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives to KRCL. 5 mile trip.

Utah 4 seasons, late July it’s too sunny and too hot. Too hot to even want to blog.

bless, Bobbylon

• Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: July 28, 2018 Annotated Playlist: 47 sec.

Set 1

• Cornell Campbell – Have Mercy Oh Jah; Stalowatt (Third World) ’76 UK vinyl
• Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers – Chemical Specialist; Threat to Creation (ON U Sound) ’81 UK white vinyl dub album of the hour
• Jimmy Riley – It’s Too Hot; Magic (Omar) ’84
• Sonya Spence – Peace & Love; In the Dark (Skynote)
• Alpha Blondy & the Solar System – Mystic Night Move; Masada (World Enterprise) ’92 Ivory Coast tribute to Bob Marley
• Inner Circle – Mary, Mary; Best of (Island) ’79 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcements
• Winston Fergus – Praise Him; 10″ (Dubwise) ’98 UK

Set 2:

• Bunny Wailer – Can’t Stop Them Now (Real Situation); Hall of Fame (RAS) ’95: 50 Bob songs for his 50th Birthday
• Upsetters – My Girl; Africa’s Blood (Trojan) ’71 Smokey Robinson cover
• Gracy & the Herbman Band – Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow; See Mi Yah (Funfundvierzig) ’91 Germ. female singjay & male toaster
• Lee “Scratch” Perry – City Too Hot; 12″ (Upsetter) ’77 UK

Set 3:

• Benjamin Zephaniah – I Love Me Mudder (poem); Riot in Progress; 7″ picture EP of poems (Workers Playtime) ’82 UK
• Aswad – Can’t Stand the Pressure; Aswad (Mango) ’76 UK
• Sheryl Ralph w/ Cedella & Sharon Marley – I’m Hurtin’ Inside; Mighty Quinn (A & M) ’89 Soundtrack to Denzel Washington movie
• Linton Kwesi Johnson & the Dub Band – Sonny’s Lettah + Iron Bar Dub; Independent Intavenshan (Island Jamaica) ’78 best of UK dub poet
• Dub Specialist – Starring Dub; DUB (Heartbeat/Studio One) Dub Album of the Hour

Set 4:

• Peter Tosh – Jam + Legalize It; Dealing With the Shytstem (bootleg) 11/5/82 dubble disk vinyl – Live at the Roxy, LA

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

• Wailing Wailers – What’s New Pussycat?; Wailing Wailers (Studio One) ’66 JA Tom Jones cover

<Reggae does pop: Marley vs. Tom Jones, WTF? 66 sec.>

• Jah Woosh – Penetrate the Works of Jah; Marijuana World Tour (Original) ’79 UK
• Leroy Smart – Strictly Sensi; Live Up Roots Children (Striker Lee) ’85

<No bush herb. Only in the chalwa!18 sec. >

• Lillian Allen – Why? – Dub Version poem + Freedom is Azania (South Africa Must Be Free); Conditions Critical (Redwood) ’87 Toronto dub poet
• Akimbo – Kalimba 2; So Long Trouble (Forward Sounds) ‘8 UK instrumental

Set 6:

• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Jah Live; 7″ (Tuff Gong) ’74 JA – can’t kill Jah

<Jah Live single and the death of HIM; 2 min. 3 sec.>

<Ethiopian Communists take over in ’74>

• Steel Pulse – Handsworth Revolution; Reggae Sunsplash ’81: Tribute to Bob Marley (Elektra) ’81 JA
• Aisha – Good Ambition; There Is More to Life (Ariwa) ’95
• Papa Face & Red Man – Dance Pon the Corner; 10″ (Top Notch) ’82 UK toasters
• Black Uhuru/Sly & Robbie – Big Spliff; Dub Factor (Mango) ’83 Dub Album of the Hour

Set 7: Jamaican Jukebox of 45’s

• Bruce Ruffin – Ooh Child; 7″ (Beverley’s) ’71 Five Stairsteps cover

• Paul Davidson – Midnight Rider; 7″ (Hometown) ’74 Gregg Allman cover
• King Burnett – Babylon a Fall; 7″ (Justice League) ’74 Lee “Scratch” Perry prod’n
• Cedella Booker – Daddy’s Mommy; 7″ (Ghetto Youths) ’96 picture sleeve

Set 8: Mutant Dub

• Noiseshaper fear. Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting; Rough Out There (Echo Beach) 2005 Austria Mutant Dub Set – cover of classic
• Dubcheck – Duppy Train; Down Memory Lane (Unitone World) 2001
• Tena Stelin – Mother’s Song; 10″ (Roots Hi-Tek) 2006 UK militant steppers
• Natacha Atlas – Yalla Chant; Diaspora (Nation) ’95 Dub Arabic chanteuse

• Words of Wisdom: