Greetings,
Not sure why Mixcloud axed last week’s upload. Feel free to listen to this 3 hour stream instead
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: May 30, 2015
Tracklist:
<Tune in to your Dub Frequency>
Greetings,
Is Reggae music gospel music? Yes and no. What attracted me to Reggae back in the mid 80s was certainly the Rastafari themed music from stalwarts (pronounced stal-a-watt in Jamaica) like Marley, Tosh and Spear.
Of course there is plenty of non-religious Reggae: love songs, pop and soul covers.
I doubt Reggae would have had such cultural saturation in the West on the backs of novelty hits like “Fattie Boom Boom” and “Israelites” or AM covers with a shuffle beat. Something about Reggae’s heavenly message attracted interested Westerners looking for something exotic and non-mainstream.
In the 70s lots of people in the West opted out of Christianity, (especially Catholicism and Judaism), and went for something new. Some went to cults. Others went for Reggae: Movement of Jah People while also protesting against the “system.” Or the corrupt and greedy “shit-stem” as Peter Tosh called it. Socialism with a small “s”.
You don’t have to be a Rasta to sing or enjoy Reggae. But the conventional wisdom is that Reggae is identified as a counter cultural exploration of worship of His Imperial Majesty as a Black Jesus. West Africans ripped from the continent, put down in Jamaica in bondage and expected to worship their master’s white god.
Rebelling against that physical and mental slavery, while still preserving Christian traditions, led to Rastafari in Jamaica: Look to a black king crowned in East Africa. The return of Jesus who will lead blacks out of “Babylon” (The West, Jamaica, UK, America, etc.) to “Zion” (Africa or better still Ethiopia.)
I’m not a Rasta. My roots are in Northern Europe and Iran. I consider myself a Rastafari empathizer. Someone who understands and appreciates the religion as a devoted observer. Not a devotee.
I grew up a twice a year Methodist: Christmas Eve and Easter. The only time the Nelson family really went to weekly Sunday service was the two years my Dad was on the City Council in Fort Benton Montana.
Not that I haven’t been trying to be a “missionary” for the secular consumption of Reggae music. I celebrate Jah for the inspiration in thousands of Reggae tunes that fill my soul with joy. But I am careful not to endorse HIM out of respect for true believers. I don’t want to be a part of what Jacob Miller complained about: Too much commercialization of Rastafari!
The reason I bring this up: I had an interview with Jamaican Reggae singer Etana. So I do what I normally do before a phone interview: go on Wikipedia and read up on the artist’s entry.
Her album I Rise starts off with a gospel cover of a brilliant Bob Marley cover tune: Selassie is the Chapel. Itself an update of an old American gospel tune. Covered by Elvis.
Etana’s entry mentioned her recording genres thusly: Reggae, Gospel.
While introducing her to the radio listeners, I casually mentioned Etana was a Reggae and Gospel artist coming to town. She interrupted me and corrected me. She was most certainly NOT a Gospel singer. Her music was not geared to religiosity.
No worries. I did political interviews for 9 years. You don’t have to agree with me to have a conversation.
But when you lead off your album with a Rasta cover of a full on gospel song you can see where I might have been mistaken!; 21 sec.
By the way, I am not religious either. What earthlings worshipped as Skygods were Ancient Aliens colonizing Earth to mine gold to take back to their homeworld, Nibiru, beyond our galaxy.
Set your I watch alarm to 2900AD. That’s when the Anunnaki return to Earth.
In fact Etana the Reggae Singer, meet Etana the Sumerian King
Etana was an ancient Sumerian king of the city of Kish. According to the Sumerian King List, he reigned after the deluge. The list also calls Etana “the shepherd, who ascended to heaven and consolidated all the foreign countries”, and states that he ruled 1560 years.
Ascended to Heaven in a Chariot of the Gods (Erich Von Daniken)
Here is what I have for you during the next 3 hours of Roots Reggae, Dubwize and Gospel; 18 sec.
Annotated Playlist (photos, captions, Reggae History Lessons, soundbytes)
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: May 30, 3015:
Set 1:
<Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL. Tweet number 666; 27 sec.>
<Peter & Bob trying to make a living. Planting herbs; 28 sec.>
Smile Jamaica’s Tweet 666
Set 2:
<Acoustic live Tosh; 21 sec.>
Set 3:
<Interview with Etana. Do not call her a gospel Reggae artist!; 3 min; 12 sec.>
Set 4: Best of Smile Jamaica’s 25 Years
<Reggae Radio: June 1988-May 2015: nearly 27 years; 19 sec.>
<Jah is Mine = The Girl Is Mine; 11 sec.>
<Prince Fari and his Old Testament voice: Fire ‘n’ Brimstoned! 18 sec.>
<Fever: Little Willie John to Peggy Lee to Susan Cadogan; 20 sec.>
Set 5: Vinyl is Vital
<Reggae History Lesson: Cimarons – Jamaican freedom fighters; 31 sec.>
Set 6:
<High Steppers post ’68-’72 in Reggae; 34 sec.>
Set 7:
Set 8: Mutant Dub
Words of Wisdom:
<Reggae Music: The King’s Music, Jamaican Blues; 10 sec.>
Greetings,
Been a wet Spring in Utah. Nice to juggle wax ‘n’ dubwize and look outside the Radio Studio in a pouring rain storm.
Here is what I have in store for you this week: 56 sec.
Annotated Playlist: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive: May 16, 2015
Set 1:
<Theme Music for Smile Jamaica; 12 sec.>
<Aswad = “black”; Arabic, Amharic (Ethiopia); 9 sec.>
<Black Ark Sound: Lee “Scratch” Perry & the Upsetters: 1974-1979>
Set 2:
<Bunny Wailer: Jesus was a Dreadlock; 60 sec.>
Wikipedia entry for Nazirites (aka Rastas who live by the Nazarene Creed)
Set 3: Best of 25 Years of Smile Jamaica; 14 sec.
<Scotty: Forward ‘n’ Payaka! Mon-ackle ‘n’ dem go Sacka!; 53 sec.>
Set 4:
Set 5: Vinyl is V-Ital Set
Set 6: Jamaican Jukebox 7″ 45s
<Rarest Reggae not on Digital; 35 sec.>
<NORML sez: 10 billion in legal weed sales this year; 4 down, 46 to go! 33 sec.>
<Chinese Jamaican Producers: HooKim Brothers; 25 sec.>
NORML – National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: $10 billion sold
Set 7:
<Rhoda Dakar bio; 9 sec.>
<2 Tone commentary against Racists in Britain; 23 sec.>
<James Brown = Ants in his Pants; Dillinger = Crabs in his pants; 16 sec.>
Set 8: Mutant Dub
Words of Wisdom:
<Roadmap for the May 9 Ark-Ive; 49 sec.>
Greetings,
Happy Mother’s Day! Gonna start the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives May 9, 2015 with a great Mother’s Day tune.
Tammy Wynette did the Country original. Sonya Spence the Reggae version. Every Mother’s Day Saturday, I will play this tune. It brings this blackheart nearly to tears thinking about the love for my own Yimma – (Mother in Assyrian), Jeannette living in Fort Benton, Montana.
Tammy Wynette – No Charge
<Sonya Spence’s Reggae version of “No Charge”; 54 sec.>
My little girl came up to me in the kitchen this evenin’
While I was fixing supper
And she handed me a piece of paper she’d been writin’ on
And after wipin’ my hands on my apron I read it, and this is what it said
For mowin’ the yard, five dollars
For makin’ my own bed this week, one dollar
Goin’ to the store, fifty cents
Playin’ with little sister while you went to the store, twenty-five cents
Takin’ out the trash, one dollar
Gettin’ a good report card, five dollars
And for rakin’ the yard, two dollars
Total owed, fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents
Well, I looked at her standin’ there expectantly
And a thousand memories flashed through my mind
And so I picked up the pen, and turnin’ the paper over
This is what I wrote
For the nine months I’ve carried you growin’ inside me, no charge
For the nights I’ve sat up with you, doctored you, prayed for you, no charge
For the ties, folding clothes and for wipin’ your nose, there’s no charge
When you add it all up, the full cost of my love is, no charge
Well, when she finished readin’ she had great big old tears in her eyes
And she looked up at me and said, “Mommy, I sure do love you”
Then she took the pen and in great big letters she wrote, ‘Paid in full’
When you add it all up, the cost of real love is, no charge
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives May 9, 2015: Annotated Playlist (Reggae History Lessons, soundbytes, photos, captions)
Set 1: Mother’s Tribute
<Bob to his mother on his deathbead: May 11, 1981; 21 sec.>
<Paul Simon recorded this song in Jamaica; 10 sec.>
Set 2:
Set 3:
Set 4:
Set 5: Vinyl is V-Ital: Roots Dawtas; 11 sec.
<Feel Like Jumping: Soundtrack of Smile Jamaica; 11 sec.>
Set 6: Best of Smile Jamaica 25 Years
<Features the nyahbinghi drum collective Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari; 14 sec.>
<Binta: dawta in Arabic and Swahili; 9 sec.>
Set 7:
Set 8: Mutant Dub
<Definition of Mutant Dub; 13 sec.>
<Call Your Mom!>
Greetings,
<Reggae: The King’s music. Jamaican Blues>
Letting the smoke clear after Cannabis Service Month on Smile Jamaica
Nonetheless, here are the high-lights of this week’s Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive: May 2, 2015
<Musical high-lights over 3 hours; 75 sec.>
bless, robt
Annotated Playlist: May 2, 2015 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive: set lists, photos, captions, Reggae History Lessons
Set 1:
<Genesis 49: Verse 22-26 – Dennis Emmanuel Brown; 23 sec.>
<Aswad – one of the first dozen added to the Smile J Ark-Ives, 1986; 21 sec.>
<Tosh rare acoustic live radio performance; 22 sec.>
Set 2: Kentucky Derby Tribute
<“Mint julep!” Drink or spliff?; 18 sec.>
<Caymanas Park Racetrack in Jamaica. 12 sec.>
<Reggae History Lesson: Chinese Jamaican jockeys; 16 sec.>
<Dance to the Reggae Beat to the riddim of the horses’ feet!; 11 sec.>
<Reggae History Lesson: Abyssinia before it was Ethiopia; 4 sec.>
The Selassie I Cup; 12 sec.
5. Dreadlock 8-1
6. Baldhead 15-1
Set 3: Monthly Rockers do Reggae: Black Music Artists; 8 sec.
<Caribbean Expats in UK – Dove of Peace; 16 sec.>
<NYC to JA. Byron Lee Dynmic All Stars; 31 sec.>
Set 3:
<England too cold for Bunny Wailer; Nov. ’73; 23 sec.>
<What is twisted can not be straightened! What is not there cannot be counted! 5 sec.>
Set 5: Vinyl is V-Ital
Set 5: Best of 25 Years of Smile Jamaica
Baltimore by Randy Newman
Hard times in the city
In a hard town by the sea
Ain’t nowhere to run to
There ain’t nothin’ here for free
Hooker on the corner
Waitin’ for a train
Drunk lyin’ on the sidewalk
Sleepin’ in the rain
And they hide their faces
And they hide their eyes
’cause the city’s dyin’
And they don’t know why
Oh, baltimore
Man, it’s hard just to live
Oh, baltimore
Man, it’s hard just to live, just to live
Get my sister sandy
And my little brother ray
Buy a big old wagon
Gonna haul us all away
Livin’ in the country
Where the mountain’s high
Never comin’ back here
’til the day I die
Oh, baltimore
Man, it’s hard just to live
Oh, baltimore
Man, it’s hard just to live, just to live
Set 6: Jamaican Jukebox 45 RPM; 6 sec.
<Albert Griffiths as Rob Smarley? 14 sec.>
Set 8: Mutant Dub*
*Programming Note: power surge from all the Mutant Dub bass knocked the station off air. Most of Jah Woosh and 2 Bad Card zapped by KRCL’s weak sauce transmitter. 2 minutes of dead air chopped from the stream. Mea culpa — the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives. 21 sec.
<Reggae History Lesson: punk dubstress Ari Up: The Slits, New Age Steppers, solo 14 sec.>
Parting Shot Words of Wisdom: Do yourself a favor educate your mind!
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.
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:
<Woody Guthrie Stylee; 20 sec.>
<Psalm 18: Verse 8; 25 sec.>
Set 2: Seven Leaves pon the Wailers Family Tree
<Peter talks about being beaten by cops; 13 sec.>
<Peter at KZEL. Eugene, Oregon; 35 sec.>
Set 3: Roots Dawtas 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!
Set 4: 7″ Jamaican Jukebox 45 RPM
Set 5: Vinyl is V-Ital Herb-wax
<How The Clash were almost The Weakhearts; 27 sec.>
Set 6: Best of Smile Jamaica (Year 1: 1989-90)
<Don’t pee in my garden or mushroom will grow! 8 sec.>
<Black Uhuru – the #1 favorite of Pre-Smile Jamaica Reggae; 1986; 12 sec.>
Set 7: Herb Free Set
<Let the smoke clear!…>
<…Cuz the Studio is cloudy!>
<Black Slate and Chrissie Hynde; 14 sec.>
Set 8: Mutant Dub 420 Space Dust
<Turn up your Subwoofer!; 8 sec.>
Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:
Greetings,
Thanks for spinning Smile Jamaica’s 420 Bash. 7 hours and 20 minutes of acoustic levitation inna Irie meditation; 5 sec.
The Digital Dubplate: Adventures in Kaya-Tude: (posted at 4:20 AM); 4/20)
21st Annual Smile Jamaica 420 Cannabis Service Show: (posted at 4:20 PM on 4/20)
Give them a spin for your own Reasoning Session. Still got a couple days to move on up! Give thanks!
I have about a thousand herbtunes Digital 4 hour 20 min show: 57 songs. Smile Jamaica 4/20: 34 songs. Less than one tenth.
So we’ll sift through some seeds and stems during Smile Jamaica’s featured sets…
High-lights of the Smile Jamaica Apr. 25 Ark-Ive
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:
Greetings,
<4 down, 46 to go!>
<Smile Jamaica’s 21st Annual Marijuana World Tour; 32 sec.>
Make way for Free Speech on Smile Jamaica’s 420 Marijuana World Tour
<Free Speech until they ban that too; 18 sec.>
High-lights of the 21st Annual Smile Jamaica Cannabis Service Show: Apr. 18, 2015
<Canna-bliss Service 21; 32 sec.>
April 18, 2015 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives Annotated Playlist: soundbytes, photos, captions, Cannabis History Lessons
<Makes sensi to me!>
*Vinyl: 16 of 34 boomshots
Set 1:
<Cannabis History Lesson: LSD – brand of herbstock in Jamaica>
<The Mummy – smokin in his sarcophagi; 17 sec.>
<Free the Marijuana – We need foreign currency; 10 sec.>
<Don’t want an injection, it will leave an infection; 15 sec.>
Set 2:
<Cannabis History Lesson: Chalwah = Chalice; 12 sec.>
Set 3: Jamaican Jukebox of 45 RPM, 7″ Weed Singles
<Michael Rose vs. Ozzy Osbourne; 13 sec.>
<Cannabis History Lesson: Brain Food; 10 sec.>
<Rub a Dub Sabbath>
Set 4: Smoking Spliff with Queen Eliza-biff
<Light your Chalice inna Buckingham Palace; 40 sec.>
<Chalice in the Palace!>
Set 5:
Set 6:
<Healing of the Nation – Revelation 22:2; 11 sec.>
<no tobacco in the Holy Land; 20 sec.>
Set 7: Mutant Dub Set
<Acoustic levitation inna Irie Meditation!>
<Cannabis History Lesson: Lebanese blonde; 6 sec.>
<Snoop’s Holy Trinity: Weed, Jah, dubstep; 9 sec.>
<Acoustic Levitation inna Irie Meditation>
Greetings,
<Smile Jamaica’s Bongrip Symphony; 2 min 45 sec>
<Livicated to the insomniacs, nite owls and graveyars shifters; 30 sec.>
Happy 420. Yeah, it’s a Monday but here is 4 hours and 20 minutes of Kaya-tude to get you through the case of the Mundanes. 20 sec.
Cooked this show up in my Secret Dubratory. About 50 songs devoted to the Seen Leaf with all my 80 plus Cannabis soundbytes, movie clips and other tomfoolery.
Played my favorite Seven Leaf gems from A to Z. Took a break to smoke some spliff with Queen Elizabeff
Then I wheeled it backwards from Z to A till it adds up to 260 minutes and zero seconds.
Livicated for the Night Owls, insomniacs and graveyard shifters. Posted at 4:20 AM. Wake ‘n’ bake!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica 2nd Annual Digital Dubplate Only, Online Canna-bliss Show
Playlist:
4:20 2015 A – Z vs. Z-A
0-30 min.
<1001 Names for the Seven Leaf; 1 min 14 sec.>
30-60 min.
<Ganja Choir; 1 min.>
60-90 min.
<The Hardstuff – 3 out of 10 will dead in a year; 20 sec.>
90 min – 2 hr.
<Philosophy of Hash; 30 sec.>
2-2 and ½ hr.
<Hemp in India; 1 min 37 sec.>
<Marijuana Lab Rat; 1 min 8 sec.>
2 and ½ – 3 hr.:
3 – 3 ½ hr.
<Parents Beware: pot = violent crime = murder; 35 sec.>
3 and ½ hr. – 4 hr.
<80% of first time cannabis users die first toke; 32 sec.>
4 hr. – 4 hr. 20 min.
<Music While Stoned; 14 sec.>
<Don’t be a thrillseeker; 8 sec.>
Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:
Greetings,
“4 down, 46 to go!”
Been away two weeks fundraising for listener supported Community Radio station KRCL. Thanks to any and all who made contributions to keep Reggae Radio and my 25 plus years running well hot. You Kings ‘n’ Queens helped us pull in $22k for KRCL on 6 total hours. Pretty great for a late afternoon, ethnic music show. Give thanks! blessings!
So let’s celebrate with a blowout.
<Alien Weed Attack; 30 sec.>
Cannabis? No! Canna-bliss. We’re gwaan celebrate free speech for three hours on Smile Jamaica devoted to the Seven Leaf. The Weed of Wisdom. The Healing of the Nation on your station that rules the nation.
Here’s what I did today
As I did last year
I will upload that show, Year 2, on April 20th, Monday at 4:20 AM. Night owls this one’s for you!
I’m in a real Vinyl mood this afternoon. Pulling Musical Cannabis “nugs” from the shelves in the ]Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives makes me want to rinse out some rarities for surety.
High-lights of the Show
Check it out but you bettter be a “responsible listener” or else…
<Johnny Law in your rear view…>
Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:
Smile Jamaica 