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Smile Jamaica Preview Apr. 25, 2015: Seeds ‘n’ Stems!

April 25, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

jeffairweed — Black Uhuru: I’ve got a stalk of sensimilla growing in my kitchen

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:

90.9FM in Utah
Stream: Tune In Radio
Mixcloud – Bobbylon: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives + Digital Dubplates
Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for live alert and stream upload/blog posts

il_570xN.478196228_30qf — Held over, never left over Seven Leaf gems today on Smile Jamaica. 4 down, 46 to go!

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)

14 on Mixcloud’s Roots Reggae chart
19 on Vinyl
20 on Dub
40th on Reggae

21st Annual Smile Jamaica 420 Cannabis Service Show: (posted at 4:20 PM on 4/20)

#7 on the Roots Reggae Chart
16 on the Dub Chart
16 on the Vinyl
33 on Reggae

Give them a spin for your own Reasoning Session. Still got a couple days to move on up! Give thanks!

tumblr_lqd911ZgwW1qf6k8co1_500 — Take me to your dealer!

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…

images (1)11 — Mysterious crop circle discovered 4/20 2015. Chouteau, County Montana

High-lights of the Smile Jamaica Apr. 25 Ark-Ive

Wailers Family Tree: Marley-juana Stylee! Bunny, Bob rehearsal, Peter talks about nearly being beaten to death for hailing the Seven Leaf
Vinyl is Vital midway – Seven Leaf black wax
Roots Dawtas – name checking Bill Clinton!
7″ Jamaican Jukebox Herbtunes
Best of 25 Years: faves from 80s Cannabis Radio. “Don’t pee in my garden or mushroom will grow!” J. Osbourne
Mutant Dub Space Dust

bless, robt

m_3490416_7nvYTxvqHhA3 — “Here’s the plan. We invade as soon as Smile Jamaica plays his last Herbtune”

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:

90.9FM in Utah
Stream: Tune In Radio
Mixcloud – Bobbylon: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives + Digital Dubplates
Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for live alert and stream upload/blog posts

images (29) — Neil Armstrong: “I am So high!”

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist): Apr. 18, 2015: 420 Canna-bliss Weekend in Kaya-tude! Makes Sensi to me!

April 20, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

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:

Jah Woosh – Marijuana World Tour; Marijuana World Tour (Original) ’79 UK*
Sly & the Revolutionaries – LSD; Black Ash Dub (Trojan) ’80 Dub Album of the Week

<Cannabis History Lesson: LSD – brand of herbstock in Jamaica>

Future Pigeon – Mummy Rock; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collection) 2006; roll a lickle spliff w/ di papyrus

<The Mummy – smokin in his sarcophagi; 17 sec.>

<Free the Marijuana – We need foreign currency; 10 sec.>

Lovindeer – Free the Marijuana; De Blinkin’ Bus (TSOJ) ’82 JA*

Peter Tosh – Don’t Want to Get Busted; Talking Revolution (Pressure Sounds); acoustic at KZEL Eugene, Jah-regon; 12 sec.

Bobby Culture, Louie Rankin, Brimstone & Fire – Big Big Bust – Tidal Wave (Unicorn) Woodstock, NY*
Jah Lloyd- Dispencer; Black Moses (Virgin Front Line) ’79 UK*

<Don’t want an injection, it will leave an infection; 15 sec.>

hqdefault (4) — The Marijuana World Tour. Taking you to the four corners of the Earth buying and smoking the herb and the by-products thereof

Set 2:

Joe Higgs – One Man Kutchie; Unity Is Power (1 Stop) ’79 UK*
Peter Culture – Coconut Chalwah; Behold 10” (Top Beat) 2000 UK*

<Cannabis History Lesson: Chalwah = Chalice; 12 sec.>

Freddie McGregor – Natural Collie; 12” (Soul Jazz) ‘82*
Zion Tribe – Herbissimo; Barre Chords (Ziontribe) ’97 SLC

download (83) — Coconut Chalwah (Chalice)

Set 3: Jamaican Jukebox of 45 RPM, 7″ Weed Singles

Black Uhuru vs. Black Sabbath – Guess Who’s Coming for Sweet Leaf; 7” (blank)*

<Michael Rose vs. Ozzy Osbourne; 13 sec.>

Queen Ifrica – Burn Some Herbs; 7” (Fire Links) 2005 JA*
Junior White – Free Up the Collie Weed for Independence; 7” *(Thoroughbred) ‘JA*
Prince Jazzbo – Brain Food; 7” (Ujama) ’86 JA dj to Horace Ferguson “Sensi Addct”*

<Cannabis History Lesson: Brain Food; 10 sec.>

funny-celebrity-pictures-ozzy-osbourne — Heard on Smile Jamaica. Guess Who’s Coming for Sweet Leaf. 4 d own, 46 to go!

<Rub a Dub Sabbath>

Set 4: Smoking Spliff with Queen Eliza-biff

<Light your Chalice inna Buckingham Palace; 40 sec.>

Heavy Manners – Taking the Queen to Tea; Heavier Than Now (Novo) ’96 Jah-cago, Ill.; smoking spliff w/ Queen Elizabeff
Peter Tosh – Buk in Hamm Palace; Mystic Man (EMI America) ‘79
Dillinger – Buckingham Palace; CB 200 (Mango) ‘76
U Roy – Chalice in the Palace; Big Blunts vol. 1 (Tommy Boy)

<Chalice in the Palace!>

download (85) — “I am not amused, Mr. Smile Jamaica!”

Set 5:

Bob Marley – Marley-juana Minimix (Smile Jamaica rmx); All of Bob’s herbtunes mashed up; 10 sec.

Eek a Mouse – Sensee Party; Skidip (Greensleeves) ’82 UK vinyl*
Jimmy Riley – Sweet Sensimilla; Put the People First (Shanachie) ’82 Ho-Ho Kus, New Jah-sey vinyl*
Loi – One Draw; 12” (Abraham) female vox on Rita Marley cover*

download (86) — Eek a Mouse either going to or coming form a Sensee Party

Set 6:

The Toyes – Smoke Two Joints; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96 US
Easy Star All Stars feat. Sluggy Ranks – Speak to Me (Breathe in the Air); Dub Side of the Moon (Easy Star) 2003 US; Pink Floyd bongrips
The Toyes – Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96; Boris Pickett Jah-loween cover
Jacob Miller – Healing of the Nation; Reggae Greats (Mango) ’84 US; Revelation 22:2. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nation*

<Healing of the Nation – Revelation 22:2; 11 sec.>

<no tobacco in the Holy Land; 20 sec.>

Carlton Livingston – 100 Weight of Collie Weed; 100 Weight of Collie Weed (Greensleeves) ‘84*

download (87) — People get busted one of 3 ways; 1 – family and loved ones turn you in; 2 – careless while driving; 3 – bad luck

Set 7: Mutant Dub Set

<Acoustic levitation inna Irie Meditation!>

Bush Chemists – Light Up Your Spliff; Light Up Your Spliff (Bush Chemists)
Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blonde; It Takes a Thief (ESL); herb flavor

<Cannabis History Lesson: Lebanese blonde; 6 sec.>

Snoop Lion feat. Mavado & Popcaan – Reincarnation (Berhane Sound System) 2013 dubstep

<Snoop’s Holy Trinity: Weed, Jah, dubstep; 9 sec.>

King General & Bush Chemists – They Say (Sinsemilla Can’t Smoke); Money Run Tings (Conscious Sounds)
Kenny Knotts – Good Sensi; Gi Me de Music (Conscious Sounds)
Soom T – Saved By a Ganja Leaf; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2010; female weedstepper from Jah-scow, Scotland

download (88) — When the World legalizes the Seven Leaf, the Aliens will make contact

Smile Jamaica 4 hours and 20 minutes: 00 – Digital Dubplate Only; Online Show! A-Z Herbtunes

April 20, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

download (76) — 420 Weekend. 4 hours and 20 minutes of Cannabis Reggae/Dub posted at 4:20 AM. Go deh!

<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.>

Aswad – Pass the Cup 12”; Not Satisfied (Deluxe Edition) (Columbia/Legacy) ’82 UK
Peter Broggs – International Farmer; International Farmer (RAS) ’82 DC
Capital Letters – Smoking My Ganja 12” Disco Mix; Headline News (Greensleeves) ’79 UK
Sammy Dread – Plant Mi Sensi; Jah Live! (Heartbeat City) ‘98
Eek a Mouse – Ganja Smuggler; Live at Reggae Sunsplash (Genes) ‘83
Future Pigeon – Mummy Rock; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collect) 2006:Los Jah-ngeles, Colly-fornya

Egypt one 043 — ‘” heard a coughin’ in the coffin when I pulled back the lid in that Egyptian Pyramid/1″

30-60 min.

<Ganja Choir; 1 min.>

Ganja Woman – Light Up a Spliff; Pro Cannabis 4 (EFA) German
HR – Who’s Got the Herb; I Luv (Railroad) ’91 Jah-tlanta, Jah-rgia
Inner Circle – Mary, Mary; Best of (Island) ‘92
Jah Lion – Colombia Colly; Colombia Colly (Mango) ’76; Lee “Scratch” Perry/Black Ark
King Sighta – Dolla Fe a Reaffer (sic); Master of All (Phil Pratt/Jet Set) ’76
Carlton Livingston – 100 Weight of Collie Weed; Retrospective (Grade One)

Carlton-Livingston-100-Weight-Of-Collie-Weed — Don’t drive 55 in a 35 with 100 Weight of Collie Weed in the trunk

60-90 min.

<The Hardstuff – 3 out of 10 will dead in a year; 20 sec.>

Niney & Max (Romeo) – Aily and Ailaloo; Blood and Fire
Johnny Osbourne – Mushroom; Fally Ranking (Greensleeves) ’72 UK
Pioneers – Feeling High; From the Beginning (Jet Star) best of 1969-1976
Queen Omega – Ganja Baby; Weed a Bun vol. 1 (Charm) 2005
Norris Reid – Collie Field; Roots & Vine (Rockers International) ’85 Augustus Pablo prod’n
Sister Carol – Wicked Collie; Jah Disciple (RAS) ’89 DC
Toyes – Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ‘96
Toyes – Smoke Two Joints; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ‘96

download (77) — Freddie vs. Frankenstein. What no Green Hornet? No Green Lantern? Where is The Hulk?

90 min – 2 hr.

<Philosophy of Hash; 30 sec.>

UB40 – Mi Spliff; Baggariddim (DEP) ’85 UK
Vibronics & Weeding Dub – Sound of Reality; The French Connection (Hammerbass) 2012; harsh penalties for herb in France
Bunny Wailer – Cease Fire; Roots, Radics, Rockers, Reggae
Yellowman – Sensimilla; Dancehall 2 (Soul Jazz)
Benjamin Zephaniah – Get High; Rasta (Workers Playtime) ’89 UK dub poet

download (78) — Cease Fire….and light the chalice….will bear you no malice….

2-2 and ½ hr.

<Hemp in India; 1 min 37 sec.>

10 Ft. Ganja Plant – 10 Ft. Ganja Plant & Weed; bushrock (ROIR)
Bush Chemists – Light Up Your Spliff; Light Up Your Spliff (Conscious Sounds); ’96 UK: Smoking spliff wif Queen Elizabeth Set
U Roy – Chalice in the Palace; Big Blunts vol. 1 (Tommy Boy)
Heavy Manners – Taking the Queen to Tea; Heavier Than Now (NeVo) ’96; female vox; Jah-cago, Ill. ska group
Dillinger – Buckingham Palace; CB 200 (Mango) ’76
Peter Tosh – Buk in Hamm Palace; Mystic Man (EMI America) ‘79

download (79) — Queen Victoria smoked herb to cope with brutal menstrual cramps. Smoking spliff wif Queen Elizabiff

<Marijuana Lab Rat; 1 min 8 sec.>

2 and ½ – 3 hr.:

2 Bad Card – Weed Specialist; CD Single (ON U Sound) ’85 UK
Zion Train feat. Afrikan Simba – Healing of the Nation; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK mutant dub; Revelation 22:2
Yellowman – Don’t Burn It down; Don’t Burn It Down (Shanachie) ‘88
Sylford Walker & Welton Irie – Lambsbread + Lambread International (Blood and Fire) ‘79
Linval Thompson – I Love Marijuana; I Love Marijuana (Trojan) ’78; riddim shower (vox)

download (82) — Your red headed friend – Lambsbread. Fluffy like a lamb’s tail

3 – 3 ½ hr.

<Parents Beware: pot = violent crime = murder; 35 sec.>

Ranking Dread – Marijuana in My Soul; Rockers From Channel One (Trojan); riddim shower (dj)
Soom T – Saved by a Ganja Leaf; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari); 2000 female weedstepper form Jah-sgow, Scotland
Big Joe & Bim Sherman – Natty Cale; Tribulation (Pressure Sounds) ’78
Rupie & Sidy – Herbert Spliffington; Rupie’s Scorchers (Trybute)
Pupajim – International Farmer; Jahtarian Dubbers vol. 2 (Jahtari) 2010 Jah-many; Peter Broggs dubstep cover
Melodians – Irie Feeling; Irie Feeling (RAS) ’83 DC
Meditations – Woman Piabba; Reggae Crazy (Nighthawk); ’76 St. Louis label, best of
King Kong – Legalize It; Rumble Jumble Life (Massive B) ’97
Barrington Levy – Sensimilea; Trojan Ganja Reggae Box Set (Trojan)
Gregory Isaacs – Mr. Cop; Reasoning With the Almighty (Trojan) ’77 Lee “Scratch” Perry prod’n

Experimental Agriculture Farm in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province — International Farmer. I hope that’s Afghani Primo

3 and ½ hr. – 4 hr.

<80% of first time cannabis users die first toke; 32 sec.>

Clive Hunt & the Dub Dancers – Satta I; & the Dub Dancers (Makasound) 2008
Fun Boy Three – Farmyard Connection; Waiting (Chrysalis) ’83: two farmers named Peter & Bob
Ethiopians – Well Red; Original Reggae Hit Sound (Trojan)
Ronnie Davis – Kaya; Trojan Ganja Reggae Box Set (Trojan) ’78 Marley cover
Culture – International Herb; International Herb (Shanachie) ’79 UK
Black Slate – Legalise Collie Herb; Amgo: Best of (Ensign) ’80 UK
Jah Stitch – Jamaican Collie; Bushyard Telegram (Tamoki Wambesi); over Winston Jarrett

download (80) — Smile Jamaica’s Adventures in Kaya-tude for 25 years. 4 down, 46 to go!

4 hr. – 4 hr. 20 min.

<Music While Stoned; 14 sec.>

Tristan Palma – Sensimilla; Return of the Rub-a-Dub Style (Echodelic Sound)
Joseph Cotton – Nuh Eat From Morning; Jah Warrior & Friends (Hammerbass) 2003 Fr.; mutant dub
The Itals – Herbs Pirates; Calling Rastafari (Nighthawk) ’82 St. Louis, Jah-ssouri
Trinity Verses Dillinger – Rizla Skank; Trinity Verses Dillinger (Bush Ranger) ‘77

download (81) — Thanks for listening to Smile Jamaica’s Digital Dubplate 4/20 Canna-bliss Show. 4 hours 20 min 0 seconds

<Don’t be a thrillseeker; 8 sec.>

Cannabis Service Weekend on Smile Jamaica: Read your Bible!

April 17, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

db59e8058c02bc89f4cd60d0588fb945 — Celebrating 1 Year on the Web at the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives! Selah

Greetings,

***From the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives legal offices of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, please read the following disclaimer***

**The operator of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives wishes those reading to know that we do not endorse, encourage or engage in illegal activity. These writings are in spirit with anti-authoritarian subcultures and are meant solely for informational and or educational purposes only. Edutaiment isn’t illegal….yet***)

marijuana_funny_pic_retro_celebrity_news_pot_smokers — Herbert Spliffington, Esq. Legal counsel for the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives. From the law firm of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe

4 down, 46 to go!

A year ago I finally turned aspiration into action. And after 25 years of Reggae Radio decided it was time for the Smile Jamaica blog. One more guy on the Internet with an opinion.

I started it out with the 20 Days of Cannabis Service Month. But it mainly became a forum to upload the Smile Jamaica Playlists and links to the Smile Jamaica Show Archives Podcasts. Or Ark-Ives as I call it. As in Black Ark – Lee “Scratch” Perry.

I quickly developed the system of cutting up 3 hours of Radio sound into soundbytes, clips and Reggae History Lessons. Upload the .mp3s. Add some photos and captions. How do you liven up a long list of songs? Week after week. Year after year for a quarter century.

So a year later, I have a crocus bag full of Cannabis Soundbytes. The Seven Leaf Symphony.

<Cannabis History Reggae Lesson – Crocus Bag; 16 sec.>

download (73) — Filled this crocus bag with about a 100 Seven Leaf sound bytes over the past year on the Smile Jamaica blog

So for the 4:20 Weekend, I am going to string a whole heap of air checks from Smile Jamaica that talk about the Seven Leaf:

Read your Bible: 30 sec.

brnt-offering — The Holy Bible. For reading not rolling

Roll a lickle spliff with di papyrus

e7961-the2bblue2blotus2bancient2begypt2bsacrament — Hey Thoth. You have any papyrus so we can smoke a little Sensimenia on our trip to Mesopotamia?

Smile Jamaica – Healing of the Nations (Revelations 22: 2); 30 sec.

Revelation 22:2. New Testament

It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations.

Ergo, partake of the Seven Leaf with a fresh crop each month for the healing of the nation. Come together as a community in harmony

Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it

There was no tobacco in the Holy Land during Old Testament times. That was green smoke emanating from the Israelite nasal passages

10431700_10152091861825997_1123346574332416576_n — It’s not recreational. It is Biblical

<Don’t h8, time to appreciate!; 2 sec.>

gerbil-smoking — Don’t be a gerbil. Get down with the herbal!

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: March 28, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Roots Dawta Showcase

April 2, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

images (20) — Smile Jamaica’s Holy Trinity: Roots, Vinyl and Sistren vocalists/deejays

Greetings,

<Livicated to the Mothers, Sistas and Dawtas; 10 sec.>

Smile Jamaica pays tribute to Women’s History Month (March) with a special show pulled from the Ark-Ives:

Roots Dawtas Vinyl – Black Wax Blowout

<Vinyl sound authentically rootsy; 8 sec.>

High-lights of the 3 hours: 80 sec.

Annotated Playlist of the March 28, 2015 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives:

Set 1

Sis Nya – Works of Jah; Jah Music (Jah Shaka) ’87 UK; 3 Hours of Roots Dawtas
GG All Stars – Changing Dub; Dub a de Number One (Heartbeat); Dub Album of the Week; Gregory Isaacs dubs
Aisha – For Salvation; Daughters of Zion (Twinkle) ’93 UK
Casselberry-DuPree’ – War; City Down (Icebergg) ’86 Milwaukee, Jahs-consin; Marley cover of Selassie UN Speech

<Haile Selassie speech to United Nations. Bob created “War”; 25 sec.>

Aura Meets Lee “Scratch” Perry – Full Experience; Full Experience (Blue Moon) Fr. EP
Rita Marley – One Draw; Reggae Party From Jamaica (Disc International) ’83 Fr.; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement

<4 down, 46 to go!; 8 sec.>

Natural Beauty – Nice Up Dancee; 12” (Must Dance) ’86 UK

<Bubble wif a 2 spliff ‘n’ 2 Heineken; 12 sec.>

$(KGrHqV,!qMFBnboLiN!BQqikk55j!~~60_35 — Early favorite from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: 2 spliff ‘n’ 2 Heineken

Set 2:

Norma King – Hot Child in the City; 12” (Zion Love) ’88 Canada; Nick Gilder pop cover

<Canadian Reggae cover of One Hit Wonder; 23 sec.>

Robotiks feat. Joanna Cassar & Sandra Cross; Echoes of Deaf Journalists; My Computer’s Acting Strange (Ariwa) ’86 UK

<In order to get a 5 star review, you must pay your magazine ads! 13 sec.>

Sis Bee & Jah Woosh – Pure Brutality; Rebellion (Federation of Reggae Music) Ireland
Pauline – Babylon; In Progress (People Unite) ’84 UK

download (68) — Canadian One Hit Wonder: Hot Child in the City, Running Wild and Looking Pretty

Set 3: Wailers Family Tree

Marcia Griffiths – Let Them Say; Rock My Soul (56 Hope Road) ’84 JA; Wailers Family Tree Set

<Marcia Griffiths & Bob Andy; 28 sec.>

Judy Mowatt – First Cut; Mellow Mood (Ashandan) ’75 JA; Cat Stevens cover
The I Three – Baby Be True; Beginning (EMI America); ’86 US; Leroy Sibbles cover

<The I-Three, Not I Threes; 11 sec.>

Set 4:

The Selecter – Celebrate the Bullet; Celebrate the Bullet (Chrysalis) ’81 UK; 2 Tone ska feat. Pauline Black on vox
Sista Ruby – Gimmi Mi Ganja; Woman DJ (Keyman) ’99 UK; herbtune
Mystic Youth feat. I-Skeeda & the Irie-Ites; Best Wishes (Sunship) Rasta Cruz, Collie-fornya; youth group with female vox

<Gem from the 99 cent crate: Mystic Youth; 8 sec.>

>Land of Fruits & Nuts – Junior high kids hail up the Seven Leaf, WTF?; 35 sec.>

Sheila Hylton – The Bed’s Too Big Without You; 12” (Island) ’80; Police cover

IMG_1284-450x450 — Great youth reggae group from the Land of Fruits & Nuts

Set 5: Dub Poetesses

<Dub Poetresses; 13 sec.>

Louise Bennett – Long Time Gal; Miss Lou!: Yes M’Dear (Island); ’83 UK live mento, calypso; Dub Poetess set

<Miss Lou: national treasure of Jamaica; 23 sec.>

Sister Netifa – Traveller; Woman Determined (Aluta) ’88 UK; about the Middle Passage

<Middle Passage: slaves to the New World, sugar to Europe, money to buy more slaves in Africa; 20 sec.>

Lillian Allen – Conditions Critical; Conditions Critical (Redwood) ’87 Canadian poet via Emeryville, Collie-fornya
Jean “Binta” Breeze – Tracks + Nanny; Tracks (LKJ) ’91 UK

<Binta – dawta in Arabic, Swahili; 22 sec.>

<Nanny – national hero of Jamaican revolution against British occupiers; 23 sec.>

jamaican_hero_nanny_maroon2 — Nanny – Jamaican hero. Legend has it she could fire bullets from a delicate part of her anatomy to terrorize the Brits

Set 6: Deejays

UB40 feat. Sister V – V’s Version; Baggariddim (DEP) ’85 UK; toaster over Version Girl

<Baggariddim – UK; Little Baggariddim US; 45 sec.>

Sister Carol – Dance Hall Style; Liberation for Africa (Serious Gold) ’83 DC
Super Chick – Roach Killer; Sleeping Bag’s Reggae Dance Hall Classics (Sleeping Bag) New Jah-sey; Roach Killer: J’can slang for leather pointed toe shoes

<Roach Killer – Jamaican shoes worn in the dancehalls; 215 sec.>

Althea Ranking – Just Rocking; 12” (Go de Jockey) ’81 JA; ½ of female deejay duo: Althea & Donna

Set 7: Soul to Disco

Maxine Miller – C.C. Rider; Showcase (Wackies) ’80 Chuck Willis cover

<Chuck Willis – CC Rider’ 12 sec.>

<Reggae History Lesson: Lloyd Barnes’ Wackies label; 10 sec.>

Blood Sisters – Ring My Bell; 12” (Soul Jazz) ’79 UK; cover of Anita Ward disco classic

<Disco is not a four letter world in Reggae or on Smile Jamaikca; 28 sec.>

RINGBELL — Always a Reggae cover of a soul or disco hit song

Set 8: Mutant Dubstresses; 5 sec.

Sinead O’Connor – Jah Nuh Dead; Throw Down Your Arms; (That’s Why There’s Chocolate & Vanilla) 2005 UK Burning Spear cover

<Sinead O’Connor: Mutant Dubstress; 40 sec.>

New Age Steppers feat. Ari Up – Some Love; Foundation Steppers (ON U Sound) ’83 UK

<Ari Up: New Age Steppers, The Slits vocalist>

The Slits – Man Next Door; 12” (Human Records) ’80 UK; cover of John Holt & the Paragons
Akabu – Africans United; Akabu (Viva) ’89 UK
Rasheda – I Jah Love; 12” (Zion Gate) 2007 Fr.; Don Carlos cover

download (71) — Anti papist. Jah nuh dead

Smile Jamaica Preview: March 28, 2015: Roots Dawta Extravaganza!

March 28, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

download (2) — Smile Jamaica’s Tribute to Women’s History Month: 3 Hours of Roots Dawtas

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:

90.9FM in Utah
Stream: Tune In Radio
Mixcloud – Bobbylon: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives + Digital Dubplates
Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for live alert and stream upload/blog posts

Greetings,

<Roots Dawta 3 Hour Showcase; 18 sec.>

Smile Jamaica celebrates Women’s History Month today: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: March 28, 2015

Top Rank Disco Mix
Lovers Rock
Mutant Dawtas
Wailers Family Tree
Herbstresses
Dub Poetesses

All vinyl! 3 hours

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:

90.9FM in Utah
Stream: Tune In Radio
Mixcloud – Bobbylon: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives + Digital Dubplates
Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for live alert and stream upload/blog posts

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: March 21, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Nowruz Mubarak Edition

March 25, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

Greetings,

First show of Spring. Here is what is in store for the 3 hours: of Smile Jamaica: March 21, 2015. 85 sec.

Annotated Playlist: March 21, 2015: Smile Jamaica

Set 1:

Azeem & Session – Pass It On; Live and Direct (M. Al’s) Berkeley, Collie-fornya vinyl
Israel Vibration – Dub Worries; Same Song Dub (RAS) ’78 Dub Album of the Week
Judy Mowatt – King of Kings; By the Rivers of Babylon (Shanachie); Rasta compilation

<Judy Mowatt – Wailers Family Tree; 25 sec.>

The Archives feat. Lenny Kurlou – Why Can’t We Live Together (ESL) 2012; Timmy Thomas soul cover; ½ of Thievery Corporation

<Timmy Thomas soul original; 18 sec.>

Courtney Melody – Bad Boy; 24 Karat Gold (Shanachie) DJ Yonnie megamix
Horace Andy – Poor Johnny; See and Blind (Heartbeat Europe) ’98; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement

<Poor Johnny chose cocaine over sensi 22 sec.>

Barry Isaac – Mission Against Herbs (Original Vocal Mix 2); 10” (Reggae on Top) bonus herbs, 2008 militant steppers

<4 down, 46 to go!>

Set 2: Best of 25 Years

George Faith – To Be a Lover (Have Mercy); To Be a Lover (Island) ’77; Lee “Scratch” Perry mix, William Bell soul cover; Riddim Shower (1): vox
The Upsetters – Love Version; Rhythm Shower (Trojan) ’70; Riddim Shower (2): Version – to Shenley Duffus vox

<Reggae History Lesson: Riddim Shower; 17 sec.>

Althea & Donna – The West; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin Front Line) ’78
Ranking Dillinger – See and Blind; None Stop Disco Style (Clocktower)

download (66) — Reggae loves classic soul

Set 3: Wailers Family Tree

The Wailers – Get Up Stand Up; Burnin’ (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong); Live at Leeds 11/23/73
Bunny Wailer – Dash Wey the Vial; Liberation (Shanachie) ‘88
Peter Tosh – Fire Fire (Babylon Burning); Talking Revolution (Pressure Sounds) acoustic live at KZEL: Eugene Oregon

<Six Degrees of Smile Jamaica: Peter Tosh acoustic KZEL Eugene Oregon; 70 sec.>

images (1) — Oregon to Minneapolis to Smile Jamaica to Sacramento to Los Angeles to UK

Set 4:

Sister Nancy – Transport Connection; 600% Dynamite (Soul Jazz)

<Reggae History Lesson: Singjay; 13 sec.>

Murray Man – Hands Up; 10” (Meditative Sounds) 2008 Sweden militant steppers

<Reggae History Lesson: Militant Steppers; 9 sec.>

The Specials – Rat Race; Stereo-Typical: A’s, B’s & Rarities (EMI) 2 Tone ska box set
Prince Far I – Commandment of Drugs; Message From the King (Virgin Front Line) ‘78

<He who traffics in dope, will hang by a rope….Prince Far I; 12 sec.>

download (67) — Gravel voiced deejay – Prince Far I. Murdered/assassinated/unsolved murder 1983

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

<bonus tune in Vinyl sets! 10 sec.>

U Brown – Chalice to Chalice; Third World Disco vol. 1 (Third World) ’77 UK herbtune

<Reggae History Lesson: Disco for Rockers Reggae 15 sec.>

Lovindeer – Grow the Ganja; De Blinkin’ Bus (TSOJ) ’82 JA
Ini Kamoze – Settle With Me; Statement (Mango) ’84 US
Ken Boothe – I Know It; Reggae For Lovers (Generation) ’79 Missisauga, Ontario
Sis Nya – Babylon Trap; Jah Music (Jah Shaka) ’87 UK

images (17) — My life spins at 33 1/3 RPM

Set 6:

The Selecter – Carry Go Bring Come; Too Much Pressure (Chrysalis) ’80; Justin Hines 2 Tone ska cover
Big Youth – Dread Organ; Dreadlocks Dread (Virgin Front Line) ‘78 harmonica dub
New Wave & the Rebel Arms – My Girl; Cobra Style (Heartbeat); Family Barrett prod’n
Dennis Brown – Open the Gates; 10” (Observer Gold)

<Reggae History Lesson: How Niney the Observer got his name; 9 sec.>

downloadniney — Niney the Observer: Record production safer than working on the docks

Set 7: Jamaican Jukebox: 7″ 45 RPM

The Meditations – Standing on the Corner; 7” (blank) ’78
Owen Gray – Turning Point; 7” (TR Groovemaster) ’77; Tyrone Davis soul cover
Hortense Ellis – Secretly; 7” (Studio One)
Keble Drummond – Dangerous; 7” (Mod)
Max Romeo – I Chase the Devil; Babylon Central (ESL ;76; Riddim Shower (1): vox
Peabody & Sherman – I Chase the Iron Man; 7” (blank); Max Romeo meets Black Sabbath

<You’ve got Black Sabbath in my Max Roemo!; 28 sec.>

ozzyweed — Ozzy vs. Max Romeo – I Chase the Iron Man

Set 8: Mutant Dub

Zion Train Sound System; Fuck the Nazis (Trancemasters Remix); ’95
Ranking Joe – World in Trouble; Twilight Circus Remixed : Dubwise (M) Dutch dubber 2004
Dreadzone – Shining Path; Second Light (Virgin) ‘95
Botom Botom – Show Me the Vibes; This is Not a Stereotype (Hammerbass) French w/ female vox
808 feat. UB40 – One in Ten; CD single (Tommy Boy) ‘92

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: March 7, 2015: (Stream + Tracklist); Spring Forward Ever Backwards Never!

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download (65) — Every time Giorgio says “Extra Terrestrials” take a drink or a hit off yer spliff!

<Lose an hour; 11 sec.>

Greetings,

Daylight Savings means winter is over!

<HIghlights of the Show>

Annotated Playlist: Reggae History Lessons, soundbytes, photos, captions: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: March 7, 2015

Set 1:

Winston Francis – Let’s Go to Zion; 10” (Sip a Cup) 2003 mutant dub
Jah Lloyd – Sharp Razor; Herb Dub (Teams) Dub Album of the Week
Black Slate – Calling Jah; World Citizen (Unit 8) 2014; UK group reunion
Rhoda Dakar – Too Experienced; Cleaning in a Another Woman’s Kitchen (Moon); 2007 UK ska vet covers Bob Andy
Horace Andy – Fly Like an Eagle; See and Blind (Heartbeat Europe); ’98 Neth.; Steve Miller cover
Ben Harper – Burn One Down; Reggae Sampler (Virgin) ’99; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Bunny Wailer – Didn’t You Know; Liberation (Shanachie) ‘88

Set 2:

The Wailers – Kinky Reggae; Burnin’ (Disc 2) (Tuff Gong); Live at Leeds Polytechnic; 11/23/73 UK

<Reggae History Lesson: From the Wailers to Bob Marley & the Wailers; 33 sec.>

Dennis Brown & Ranking Buckers – Tenement Yard; 10” (Observer Gold) ‘77
Akabu feat. DJ Pepsi; No Crack; Warrior Queen (ON U Sound) ’95 UK female group

uk-map_323x409 — The Wailers – 11/23/73. Live at Leeds Polytechnic. North of London

Set 3: Rockers doing Reggae

Garland Jeffreys – Midnight Cane; Garland Jeffreys (Atlantic) Rockers do Reggae Set; ’73 NYC black rock artist with Byron Lee in Jamaica

<Garland Jeffreys – NYC black rocker in Jamaica; 76 sec.>

The Slits – I Heard It Thru the Grapevine; Eastbound & Down Soundtrack (HB0); UK female punk dub cover of Marvin Gaye; 11 sec.

Peter and the Test Tube Babies – Trapper Ain’t Got a Bird; Punk Rock Singles Collection (Anagram) UK punkers

<You’ve got punk rock in my dub reggae!; 5 sec.>

Led Zeppelin – Dy’er Mak’er; Houses of the Holy (Atlantic) ’73; Did you make her in Jamaica. Say it fast!; 78 sec.

220px-D'yer_Mak'er45 — “Did you make her in Jamaica?”

Set 4:

Izyah Davis & Coptic Sound – No More War; 10” (Livication Corner) 2008 Fr. Mutant Dub

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital – Seven Leaf Set; 22 sec.

Steel Pulse – Drug Squad; Caught You (Island) ’80 UK
Heptones – Sensemenia Collie; One Step Ahead (Sonic)
’85 JA
Lion Youth – Bring de Couchie; Love Comes & Goes (Virgo Stomach) ’81 UK clear vinyl
Lovindeer – Free the Marijuana; De Blinkin’ Bus (TSOJ) ’82 JA

<Legalize it for “foreign currency”; 8 sec.>

hqdefault (3) — “You’re wasting my time looking for dope!”

Set 6: Best of 25 Years

Tenor Saw – Who’s Gonna Help Me Praise; Fever (Blue Mountain) ’89; Best of 25 Years
Big Youth – Screaming Target; Screaming Target (Trojan) ’73; over Dawn Penn’s “No, No, No” riddim
Madness – One Step Beyond; One Step Beyond; 2 Tone UK ska
Rita Marley – One Draw; Big Blunts vol. 1 (Tommy Boy) ’81 herbtune; 12 sec.

download (63) — Rita teaches star pupils: Smokey, Herbie and Milla as in Sensi-milla!

Set 7: Jamaican Jukebox 45 RPM

<lo fi, no computers for I ‘n’ I!>

King Stitt – Herbman Shuffle; 7” (Trojan) ’69 pic sleeve; 7” Jamaican Jukebox set
Hortense Ellis – Red Shirt; 7” (Sun Set)
Ronnie Davis – Tradition Song; 7” (Clocktower) ’75 NYC
Dub Syndicate – Etherealites; 7” (blank); mutant dub

Set 8: Mutant Dub

<UFOria; 16 sec.>

Zion Train – Rebuilding Rome; Love Revolutionaries (Universal Egg); ’99 UK; Mutant Dub Set
Ras Command – Education; Serious Smokers (Waveform) 2000
Dreadzone feat. Ini Kamoze – One Way; Second Light (Virgin) ’95 UK
Soom T – Weed is Sweeter; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2010; female weedstepper from Jahs-gow, Scotland
Bob Marley – Exodus Dub (Kindred Spirit Mix); Marley Soundtrack (Tuff Gong) 2012

1048234_362696147233779_6342830878715873088_o — Weedstepper

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Bob-ruary 28, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist: Listen to Bob everyday, keeps the Devil away. I say!

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download (60) — Three generations in Jah’s Heavenly Choir

Greetings,

<Listen to Bob everyday, keep the Devil away. I say!>

Last day of Bob-ruary. Her are the high-lights of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Bob-ruary 28, 2015; 62 sec.

Nuff Bob Marley Tribute Stylee (Feb. 6, 1945): CD and Vinyl
Best of 25 Years – From year 1 (1989-90); my faves at the time through today
Jamaican Jukebox 7″ 45 RPM vinyl – Charles Manson makes his debut on Smile Jamaica!
10″ and 12″ Disco Mix Combination Style or Dubwize
Wailers Family Tree
Mutant Dub Roots Dawta Set

bless, robt

Annotated Playlist (soundbites, Reggae History lessons, photos and captions)

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Bob-ruary 28, 2015

Set 1:

Session feat. Azeem – Tribute to Bob Marley; Tribute to Bob Marley (M. Al’s) ’81 Oakland vinyl
Reggae on Top All Stars – Cutting Dub; Chalice Dub Part 1 (Reggae on Top) ’95; Dub Album of the Week

<4 down, 46 to go!: Psalm 18: Verse 8, 16 sec.>

Cedella Marley Booker – Mother Don’t Cry; Awake Zion (Rykodisc) ’84; Bob’s Mom pays tribute

<Bob’s last words to his Mom; 23 sec.>

Gregory Isaacs – Slave Driver; Sly & Robbie Present (RAS) ’80 Marley cover
Afrikan Simba + Echo & Prince Livijah – Free Up the Herb + Here Comes the Herbsman; 10″ EP (Reality Shock) 2007 UK; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcment

Cedella-Marley-Booker-Awake-Zion — “Mother don’t cry. I’ll be alright. I’m going to a better place”

Set 2: Best of 25 Years of Smile Jamaica

Naturalites – Picture on the Wall; Rub-a-Dubble vol. 1 (CSA) ’85 UK

<How Smile Jamaica made this song International: 1; 64 sec.>

<Smile Jamaica and the Oral Tradition; 29 sec.>

Althea & Donna – Sorry; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin Front Line) ’78 female dj duo
Dennis Brown – So Jah Say; Words of Wisdom (Shanachie) ’79
African Head Charge – Gospel Train; Songs of Praise (ON U Sound) ’90 Mutant Dub/African music hybrid

download (58) — Not to be confused with the cheap beer. Storytelling: Listen to the bytes above to hear how Smile Jamaica made Picture on the Wall a big Reissue Hit in the SoCal Island community

Set 3: Tribute to Bob Marley

Sister Carol – Dedicated to Bob Marley; Black Cinderella (Heartbeat/Jah Life) ’84

<Rastas would prefer livicate to dead-icate; 16 sec.>

Lone Ranger – Tribute to Bob Marley; On the Other Side of Dub (Heartbeat/Studio One) ’81 bonus track

<No Reggae without Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One Label; 22 sec.>

Culture – Psalm of Bob Marley + Dub of Bob Marley; Good Things (RAS) ’89

download (59) — Coxsone Dodd – founder of Reggae Music with his Studio One record label; 1932-2004. Thank you!

Set 4: Jamaican Jukebox – 7″ 45 RPM

Jah Blue – Charles Manson; 7″ (Roots International) ’79 JA, not a tribute!

<Charles Manson – Helter Skelter “black people beware”; 56 sec.>

Al Campbell – Rasta Time; 7″ (Marvellous) ’74 Fr.
Nahrobi Isic) Sisters – 7″ (Gayfeet) ’75 JA; soul, funk, nyah Roots Dawtas
Big Joe & Bim Shieman (Sherman) – Natty Cale; 7″ (Scorpio) ’78 JA; herbtune

<Smile Jamaica’s favorite singer: Bim Shieman/Bim Sherman; 16 sec.>

charles-manson — Summer AFTER the Summer of Love: Tate-LoBianca Murders, Helter Skelter, Race War. “Black People beware!”

Set 5: Vinyl is V-Ital! – Tributes to Bob Marley

Horace Andy – Bob Lives On; Exclusively (Solid Groove) ’82 UK: riddim shower (vox)
Ringo – Great Superstar; 12″ (Top Ranking) ’82 FL: riddim shower (dj)
Ranking Joe – Tribute to Bob Marley; Rebel DJ (Jam Rock) ’82 FL
Shakaman – If It Wasn’t For the Rasta Man (Tribute to the Reggae King); 2030 A.D. (Majicaa) ’87 Los Jah-ngeles, Colly-fornya

Set 6: Wailers Family Tree

The Wailers – No More Trouble; Burnin’ (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong); Live at Leeds UK; 11/23/73

<Bunny Wailer – England too Cold>

Ky-Mani Marley; Dear Dad; CD Single (Gee Street); Bob’s son 2000
Bunny Wailer – Ready You Ready; Liberation (Shanachie)
Peter Tosh – Fire Fire (Babylon Burning); Talking Revolution (Pressure Sounds) acoustic in the Studio at KZEL; Eugene, Oregon

<How Smile Jamaica helped rediscover Tosh artifact; 1 min, 50 sec.>

150px-KZEL-FM — Six Degrees of Smile Jamaica. Lost Tosh acoustic artifact – From Minnesota, to Smile Jamaica to Sacramento to Los Angeles to UK CD

Set 7:

Everton Blender – Bob Marley; Piece of the Blender (Heartbeat) ’96
Trinity – Vampire; Dancehall 2 (Soul Jazz)

<Reggae History Lesson: Dancehall, Jamaica: 1980-1985; 10 sec.>

Set 8: Mutant Dub Roots Dawtas

Afro Omega – Show Me the Dub; CD Single (Afro Omega) SLC dubbers
Zion Train – Why Should We Have to Fight; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK
Red I feat. Camoi – Lost in Space; Jahdgement Day (Red I) ; 2012 Phillipines dub
Grace Jones – Well, Well, Well + Verison – Hurricane (Wall of Sound) 2011; soul does mutant dub
Alpha & Omega – The Roots; Watch & Pray (A & O) ’88 UK trance dubbers

<Leonard Nimoy – RIP; We return to Space when we die; 17 sec.>

download (61) — Space Pioneer Leonard Nimoy. Live long and Prosper. Vulcan livication inna Irie meditation

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Preview Jah-bruary 28, 2015 – Last Day of Bob-ruary, Bobstock, Bob-stalk!

February 28, 2015 Robert Nelson 1 Comment

bob-marley-70-reggae-reggaetoday — Celebrating Bob-sstalk/Bobstock every day for more than 25 Years at the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:

90.9FM in Utah
Stream: Tune In Radio
Mixcloud – Bobbylon: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives + Digital Dubplates
Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for live alert and stream upload/blog posts

Greetings,

Last day of Bob-ruary on Smile Jamaica. Bob Marley of course

Here’s what I’m gonna feature today

Marley Tribute Sets: Aluminum (CD) and Vinyl
Mutant Dub
Jamaican Jukebox: 7″ 45 RPM
Roots Dawtas
Seven Leaf
Disco Mix Vinyl

Head’s up Marley obsessives. 2 new Marley live offerings. Music and live video performance

This one came courtesy of my Pops

From Sports Illustrated: The Descendants; Sept. 15, 2014

Bob Marley’s son Rohan with grandson Nico

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:
- 90.9FM in Utah
- Stream: Tune In Radio
- - Mixcloud – Bobbylon: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives + Digital Dubplates
- Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
- Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for live alert and stream upload/blog posts

Smile Jamaica is hosted by Robert Nelson on 90.9 FM KRCL in Salt Lake City, Utah (Saturdays, 4-7 p.m. MT). Ark-ives available weekly here at the Smile Jamaica blog.

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