<Livicated, never deadicated, to all the Irie Roots Muddah’s, Dawtas, and Granny’s; 12 sec.>

Greetings,

I’m a momma’s boy. Oldest kid. Every Sunday I get up, rise and shine, put the coffee on and around 9:30 either I call Mom or she calls me.

After 45 years of juggling the books in Fort Benton Montana’s High School, her and my dad are becoming Sunbirds in Sun City West, AZ.

So let’s celebrate that maternal goodness with a Smile Jamaica’s Mothers Day. Even better. Let’s make it all vinyl.

Female artists and male artists paying tribute to their mom’s: Paul Simon, Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Peter Tosh and more.

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: May 13, 2017 playlist: (63 sec.)

Set 1:

• Paul Simon – Mother and Child Reunion; Paul Simon (Warner Bros.) ’72 19 sec.

<recorded in Jamaica at Dynamic Studios>

• Scientist – 11 Guava Road Dub; King of Dub (Kingdom) ’81 Dub Album of the Hour
• Sonya Spence – No Charge; In the Dark (Skynote) ’78: Tammy Wynette cover

<Tammy Wynette Reggae stylee; 18 sec.>

<No Charge – mother’s lyrics to son wanting allowance; 19 sec.>

• Sis Nya – Babylon Trap; Jah Jah Way (Jah Shaka) ’89 UK
• Zema – Blood Money; Zema (Melchizedek) ’86 San Diego
• Mystic  Youth feat. I-Skeeda & the Irie Ites – Save the Roaches Best Wishes (Sunship) 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; Bay Area youth group

<Youth band from the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, San Francisco; 43 sec.>

• The Jaytees – Come to Me; 10″ (Music Lab) ’81 JA female duo

Set 2:

• Dennis Brown – Songs My Mother Used to Sing; Aquarius Rock (Pressure Sounds) Herman Chin-Loy prod’n
• The Main Attractions – Jam Up, Jam Down; Roots Rock Reggae (Creole) ’78 Fr.
• Chalawa feat. Merri & Sandi Callender – If You Drop That Cross; Capture Land (Green Weenie) ’78 Can.
• Sister Carol – Get It Straight Africans; Jah Disciple (RAS) ’89 DC
• African Princess – Jah Children Cry; Hits From the House of Shaka (Jah Shaka) ’80 UK

Set 3:

• Peter Tosh – Mama Africa; Mama Africa (EMI America) ’83 US
• Pauline – Babylon; In Progress (People Unite) ’84 UK
• Sister Africka – Rivers of Babylon; 10” (Dub Jockey) UK niyabinghi
• Prince Lincoln – Love the Way It Should Be; Vortex Dub (Orange Street) ’80 Dub Album of the Hour

Set 4:

• Benjamin Zephaniah – I Love Me Mudder (Poem); Rasta (Workers Playtime) ’83 UK dub poet
• Sophia George – Tenement Yard; Fresh (Winner) ’85 JA
• Aura Lewis & Lee “Scratch” Perry – Full Experience; Full Experience) ’76  Black Ark EP (Fr.)

Set 5: Wailers Family Tree

• Cedella Marley Booker – Mother Don’t Cry; Awake Zion (Rykodisc) ’84: Wailers Family Tree Set – Bob’s last words to his mom

<Bob’s last words turned into a song; 75 sec.>

• Marcia Griffiths – Melody Life; At Studio One (Studio One) ’68 JA
• Judy Mowatt – Hush Baby Mother; Working Wonders (Shanachie) ‘85
• Rita Marley – Good Morning Jah; Who Feels It Knows It (Shanachie) ‘80

<Good name for a Reggae show; 14 sec.>

Set 6:

• The Triumphant Singers – Don’t Forget to Pray; Man from Galilee (Tabernacle) ’68 JA gospel
• The Selecter – Celebrate the Bullet; Celebrate the Bullet (Chrysalis) ’81 UK 2 Tone Ska
• Casselberry & DuPree’ – Positive Vibration; City Down (Icebergg) ’86 Milwaukee, WI folk-reggae duo, Bob Marley cover
• Sister Nancy – Bam Bam; One Two (Techniques) ’82 JA
• Sister Rasheda – Jah is Love; 10” (Jah Warrior) 2006
• Jah Shaka Meets Aswad – Addis Ababa; In Addis Ababa Studio (Jah Shaka) ’84 Dub Album of the Hour

Set 7: Dawta Dub Poets

• Jean Binta Breeze – Tracks + Nanny; Tracks (LKJ) ’90 UK

<Nanny of the Maroons – Jamaican Heroine; 97 sec.>

• Lillian Allen – Rub a Dub Style in a Regent Park; Revolutionary Tea Party (Redwood) ’87 Toronto dubber
• Louise Bennett – Dry Weather Houses;  Jamaican Folk Songs (Smithsonian Folkways) ’53 10”
• Sister Netifa – Woman Determined; Woman Determined (A Luta) ’89 UK

Set 8: Mutant Dubstresses

• Alpha & Omega feat. Tracey J – Rasta Woman; King & Queen (A & O) ’89 UK trance dub
• Akabu – Work; Akabu (Viva) ’89 U
• Sinead O’Connor – War; Throw Down Your Arms (That’s Why There’s Chocolate & Vanilla) 2005 UK dubble disk; Bob Marley cover
• The Slits – Return of the Giant Slits – Walk About; Return of the Giant Slits (CBS) ’81 UK
• Aisha – Raise Your Voice; 12” (Twinkle) ‘95
• The Wild Bunch – Mr. President Man ; The Wild Bunch (Ariwa) ’84 UK

<Livicated to Pres. #45 – Vladimir Putin>

Words of Wisdom