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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist): March 5, 2016: Hayfever Season!

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Greetings,

Two tings signal Spring for I ‘n’ I. Daylight Savings Time (this weekend) and Hayfever. Not from my favorite hay either. 4 down, 46 to go!

Spun tunes in a nice little Flonase Allegra-/D cocktail to keep the serial sneezing at bay. How does it affect the snow?

Tune in and find out!

bless, robt

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Whole heap of this for the next month

<High-lights: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive: March 5, 2016 Edition; 56 sec.>

  • You’ve got Roots Dawtas inna my Wailers Family Tree
  • Bob live in the studio, Peter’s last album debuts on Smile J, Bunny Roots
  • Rockers do Reggae
  • Vinyl Is Vital
  • Mutant Dub

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Set 1:

  • Matumbi – Reggae Stuff; Hit Me With Music (Trojan) ’77 UK vinyl
  • Ronnie Davis – Raining Dub; (Jamaican Recordings) Dub Album of the Hour
  • Devon Russell – Jah Will See; Prison Life (Tamoki Wambesi) ‘83
  • Della Humphrey – Dreamland; Studio One Women (Soul Jazz/Studio One) ’66 Bunny Wailer
  • Capital Letters – Rejoice; Headline News (Greensleeves) ’79 UK youth group
  • Inner Circle – Mary, Mary; Best of Inner Circle (Mango) ’79 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
  • Wayne Jarrett – Youth Man; 12” (Wackies) ‘79
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Jacob Miller of Inner Circle. Tragically killed in car accident

Set 2: Best of 26 Years – Smile Jamaica: Wailers Dawtas/Sistas/Mamas: 17 sec.

  • Marcia Griffiths – Give and You Get; Steppin’ (Shanachie) ’79:
  • Rita Marley – Beauty of God’s Plan; Harambe (Shanachie) ‘82
  • Judy Mowatt – Sing Our Own Song; Love Is Overdue (Shanachie) ’87 UB40 cover
  • Cedella Marley Booker – Goodnight (Just One More Time); Awake Zion (Rykodisc) ‘84

<I-Three + Bob’s mom; 22 sec.>

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Judy, Rita, Marcia – The I-Three. Not I Threes

Set 3:

  • Peter Tosh – No Nuclear War; No Nuclear (EMI America) ‘87; 28 sec.
  • John Brown’s Body – Tell Me Something I Don’t Know; Among Them (Shanachie) ’99 Upstate NY instrumental
  • Ranking Ann – Liberated Woman; A Slice of English Toast (Ariwa) ’81 UK singjay
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After a 4 year hiatus, murdered a month after its release. Livicate, nevah deadicate

Set 4: Rockers do Reggae 

  • Robert Palmer – Love Can Run Faster; Double Fun (Island) ’78 Lee Perry/Black Ark mix
  • Taj Mahal – Johnny Too Bad; Mo’ Roots (Columbia) ’74 Slickers cover
  • Bananarama – Tell Tale Signs; Deep Sea Skiving (London); ’83 single
  • Blues Brothers – Groove Me; Briefcase Full of Blues (Atlantic) ’78 King Floyd cover; 20 sec.
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John & Dan flying back from Jamaica with 75 pounds of lambsbread!

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

  • Sugar Minott – International Herb; Jamming in the Streets (Wackies) ’83 NY: Vinyl is Vital Set
  • Aura Lewis – Full Experience; Aura Lewis Meets Lee “Scratch” Perry at Black Ark Studio (Blue Moon) Fr. EP w/ female vox
  • Michigan & Smiley – Thank You Jah; All on the Same Rhythm (Studio One/RAS) ’79 DC
  • Jah Woosh – Get Together; Rebellion (Freedom of Reggae Music) Ireland
  • Pluto & Trinity?– Vampire Year; Ire Mass Rockers (Top Ranking) ’79 FL
  • Bullwackies All-Stars – Free For All; Free For All (Wackies) Dub Album of the Hour
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International Herb – 4 down, 46 to go!

Set 6:

  • The Wailers – I Shot the Sheriff; Talkin’ Blues (Tuff Gong) live on KSAN Radio, San Francisco: Oct. ‘73; 50 sec.
  • New Age Steppers feat. Ari Up – Conquer; King Size Dub: ON U Sound 30 Year (Echo Beach) 2011 mutant dub w/ female vox
  • Sip a Cup Family – Zulu’s Attack; 10” (Sip a Cup) 2005 militant steppers instrumental
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Inventors of free form FM radio – hosted the Wailers ’73

Set 7:

  • Bunny Wailer – Free Jah Jah Children; Crucial! (Shanachie) ‘79
  • Leroy Smart – Ballistic Affair; Strictly For Rockers (Mango) ’85 comp.
  • Aisha – Carnal Mind + dub; True Roots (Ariwa) ’94 Yabby You cover
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Smile Jamaica favorite Roots Dawta

Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • Burial – Ghost Hardware; Untrue (Hyperdub) 2007 UK Mutant Dub Set
  • Samia Farah – Gratuit; Many Mood of Samia Farah (SAM) 2008 Fr.
  • Word Sound I-Powa; Bass Flight; Live From Planet Crooklyn (ROIR) ’96 NY
  • DJ Nut Nut feat. Top Cat  & Frankie Paul – Special Dedication; Jungle Massive vol. 1 (Payday) ’95 UK
  • Dan-I & King Kietu – Ababjanhoy Dubplate; Rastafari Judgement Fire (Imperial Roots) 2009 It.
  • Snoop Lion – Tired of Running; Reincarnated (Berhane Selassie) 2013

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist): Jah-bruary 27, 2016: Lamb of Judah

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Chunky air Jah-bruary goes out like the Lamb of Judah into Spring. Selah!

<Bad air Jah-bruary goes out like a lamb; 9 sec.>

Greetings,

After a brutal month of bad/chunky/polluted air in Salt Lake City, it was so nice to have 60 degrees for the last Smile Jamaica of winter (Praise Jah!).

I have lived in SLC for coming up on 30 years. Seems like  each winter the Inversion Galore gets worse and worse.

Really vexes me when the weather man talks about “inversion” or “haze”. Yeah, bullflop – it’s smog and pollution.

Thankfully, I don’t have respiratory problems,  but even I got hit with a mild dose of bronchitis this month.

Smile Jamaica’s bronchial cure: Allegra-D in the morning, Mucinex at Noon, Flonase whiff before bedtime. As much water as I can slug down.

One thing about Spring: Hay fever. But at least the mornings are lighter and I get to go home in daylight.

Forward ever, backwards never!

bless, robt

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2016 Smog Lake City

<High-lights for Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-bruary 27, 2016; 28 sec.>

Set 1:

  • Michael Prophet – Jah Love; Jah Love (Live & Learn) ’83 DC vinyl
  • I Kong – Life’s Road (dub); The Way It Is (VP) ’78: Dub Album of the Hour
  • Bim Sherman – Lamb of Judah; Bim Sherman Meets U Black & Horace Andy in a Rub-a-Dub Style (Original) ‘79
  • Judy Mowatt – Black Woman; Strictly For Rockers (Mango) ’85 comp.
  • Aswad – Just a Little Herb; Rebel Souls (Mango) ’84 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
  • Gregory Isaacs – Slavemaster; Mr. Isaacs (Shanachie) ‘78
  • The Observers – Zorro/Cutting Sword; 10” (PK) ’79 Niney instrumental
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Smile Jamaica’s favorite singer – Bim Sherman & the Lamb of Judah

Set 2: Wailers Family Tree Set

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – One Love/People Get Ready; Exodus (Tuff Gong) ’77 Request

<Reggae History Lesson – Exodus: The LP & Bob’s journey; 22 sec.>

  • Bunny Wailer – Power Strugglers; Crucial! (Shanachie) ’79
  • Peter Tosh – Mama Africa; Complete Captured Live (EMI America) 8/23/83 Live – Los Angeles
  • The Wailers – Bend Down Low; Talkin’ Blues (Tuff Gong) Oct. ’73 live at KSAN Radio, San Francisco

<The Wailers live on KSAN Radio; 13 sec.>

  • Dubblestandart – Holding You Close (Dub); In Dub (Echo Beach) 2014 Austrian; Dub Album of the Hour

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Sly Stone – kicked the Wailers of his tour as opening act, 1973

Set 3: Best of 26 Years – Smile Jamaica

  • Joe Higgs – Songs My Enemy Sings; Life of Contradiction (Micron/Pressure Sounds) ’75
  • George Faith – Midnight Hour/Ya Ya; To Be a Lover (Island) ’77: Wilson Pickett/Lee Dorsey soul cover; Perry/Black Ark/Upsetters
  • Mighty Diamonds – Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley; Ice on Fire (Virgin Front Line) ’77: Allen Toussaint New Orleans cover of Robert Palmer tune
  • Aisha – Guide & Protect; Roots Daughters Vol. 1 (Ariwa) ’88 Mad Professor
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Smile Jamaica’s favorite – soulful Reggae

Set 4:

  • Black Roots – Earthland; On the Ground (Sugar Shack) 2012 UK roots reunion
  • Martha Velez – Money Man; Escape From Babylon (Sire) ’76: Marley prod’n/Perry engineered/Wailers riddims

<Martha Velez, sister of Hendrix percussionist at Woodstock: Jerry Velez; 20 sec.>

  • Horace Andy – Don’t Let Problems Get You Down; 10” (Glimmer) ‘77
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Marley produced. Scratch engineered. Wailers on the riddims

Set 5: Vinyl Is V-Ital 

  • Lillian Allen – Jazz You + This Ya Mumma Earth (Peace Poem); Conditions Critical (Redwood) ’87: J’can dub poet
  • Basement 5 – Immigration; 1965-1980 (Island) ’80 UK punkdub – members went on to Big Audio Dynamite

<Punk Dub led to Big Audio Dynamite; 17 sec.>

  • Sugar Minott – Mass Mi Mass; Rydim (Power House) ’85 JA – George Phang prod’n
  • Augustus Pablo – Last of the Jestering; Thriller (Echo) ’80 melodica, Enos McLeod prod’n

Set 6:

  • Specials – Rude Boys Outa Jail; A Checkered Past: A 2 Tone Collection (2 Tone) ’80 UK ska revival
  • Dave Barker – Travelling Man; 30 Wicked Hearts (Bushay’s) Techniques cover
  • Audio Active – Auditory Nerve (Part 2); We Are Tokyo Space Cowboys (ON U Sound) ’94 Jah-pon dubbers/weedsteppers
  • Rita Marley – One Draw; Who Feels It Knows It (Shanachie) ’80 herbtune
  • MIkey Dread – Dub Party; Come to Mikey Dread’s Dub Party (ROIR) ’95: Dub Album of the Hour
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Audio Active – Jah-ponese Mutant Dub Weednauts

Set 7:

  • Lee “Scratch” Perry – Collie Ruler; Lord God Muzick (Heartbeat) ’91 herbtune
  • Josey Wales – Let Go Me Hand; Outlaw Josey Wales (Greensleeves) ‘83
  • Sister Rasheda – Jah Is Real; 10” (Jah Warrior) 2006 UK militant steppers
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The Collie Ruler

Set 8: Mutant Dub Dawtas

<Mutant Dubstresses>

  • Orange Blossom feat. Leila Bennous – Desert Dub; Everything Must Change (Bonsai) 2004 Fr.: Mutant Dubstresses Set
  • Hollie Cook – 99; Twice (Mr. Bongo) 2013 UK – dawta of Sex Pistol Paul Cook
  • Akabu – Sweet Inspiration; Warrior Queen (ON U Sound) ’95 UK female roots group
  • Lee “Scratch” Perry & Samia Farah – Yellow Tongue; The Mighty Upsetter (ON U Sound) 2008 UK

<Lee Perry’s intestinal whip>

  • Natacha Atlas feat. Tuupe & Princess Juliana – Eye of the Duck; Something Dangerous (Mantra) 2003 Belgian/Algerian-Jewish
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Mutant Dub with female vox in Arabic

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist): Jah-nuary 30, 2016: Stupor Bowl Caucus

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Fess up Bernie. Hillary stole it fair ‘n’ square!

Greetings,

Super Bowl 50. Meh.

Since Green Bay isn’t in it, I have only a passing interest. I am rooting for Denver only because their back up QB is from Kalispell,  or Collie-spell, Montana. Borck Rottweiler or some such.

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Smile Jamaica’s Peyton Manning Game: Take a hit or down a shot every time Peyton says Omaha!

Same with the Iowa Caucus.

As Bob said, “No bide your isms an schisms.” I’m feelin’ fine with Jill Stein.

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Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President. Smile Jamaica approved

But in the Hillary vs. Bernie hoe-down (no pun intended), I’m kind of like: tastes great, less filling. In our winner take all “Democracy”, you can only  have 1 winner and 1 loser.

So I ‘n’ I gwan Bern one down, till I vote for Jill the Thrill in November

bless, robt

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Smile Jamaica’s tie-breaker for New HEMP-shire: best 2 out of 3 – Rock, paper, scissors

Here is what I have on-tap for the Jah-nuary 30, 2016 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives; 39 sec.

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Next up New Hemp-shire. Revenge of the Bern!

Set 1:

  • Sugar Minott – Jah Got the Handle; Roots Lovers Showcase (Black Roots) ’81 JA vinyl
  • Keith Hudson – Image Dub; Brand (Pressure Sounds) ’77 Dub Album of the Hour
  • Gideon Jah Rubbaal – Natty Dreadlocks a Superstar; Free Us Now
  • Errol Holt – Babylon Queendom; Vision of Africa (Original Music) Peter Tosh cover
  • Rita Marley – Who Feels It Knows It; Who Feels It Know It (Shanachie) ’81 Bunny Wailer cover
  • Triston Palma – Collyman; Dancehall 2 (Soul Jazz)  ’81 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; 
  • Roman Stewart – True Colours; 10” (Sip a Cup) 2001 UK: Over Hawaii 5-0 riddim
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5 down, 45 to go? Vermont Legislator could legalize it this session

Set 2:

  • Peter Tosh – Johnny B. Goode; Complete Captured Live (EMI America) Chuck Berry cover: 8/23/83 Los Angeles
  • Zema – Black Sheep; Black Sheep (Melchizedek) 2003 So Cal female
  • Alton Ellis – Play It Cool; Fashion in Fine Style (Fashion)
  • Johnny Clarke – Leggo Violence; 10” (Jamaican Recordings)
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So Cal Roots Dawta – Smile Jamaica approved

Set 3: Best of 26 Years – Smile Jamaica

  • Capital Letters – Fire; Headline News (Greensleeves) ’79 UK youth group:
  • New Age Steppers feat. Ari Up – Love Forever; New Age Steppers (Statik) ’81 UK Michael Rose cover w/ female vox
  • Benjamin Zephaniah – Stop de War; Rasta (Workers Playtime) ’83: UK dub poet w/ The Wailers
  • Lee “Scratch” Perry & the Heptones – Party Time; From the Secret Laboratory (Mango) ’91 Adrian Sherwood co-production

 

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You’ve got chocolate in my peanut butter: UK dub poet + The Wailers pon de riddims

Set 4:

  • Bunny Wailer – Togawar Game; Crucial! (Shanachie)
  • Judy Mowatt – King of Kings; Only a Woman (Shanachie) ‘82
  • Mike Brooks – Money Makes Friend; 10” (Sip a Cup) 2005 UK
  • Jah Shaka Meets Aswad; Addis Ababa; In Addis Ababa Studio (Jah Shaka) ’84: Dub Album of the Hour

<Mutant Dub Holy Trio – Jah Shaka, Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood; 20 sec.>

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Mutant Dubber – Jah Shaka

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

  • Pat Kelly – Struggling; Revives: The Jamaican Connection (Fashion) UK

<Revives = Reissues; 11 sec.>

  • Pauline – Vision; In Progress (People Unite) ’84 UK
  • Melodians – Irie Feeling; Irie Feeling (RAS) ’83 DC herbtune
  • Amp-Ech; International Plea; Against Injustic (Amp-Ech) JA
  • 10 Foot Ganja Plant – Collect the Trophy; Skycatcher (ROIR) NY 2013

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Set 6:

  • The Wailers – Walk the Proud Land; Talkin’ Blues (Tuff Gong) live at KSAN radio, San Francisco: Oct. 1973

<Wailers live on KSAN Radio; 38 sec.>

  • Remember When – Sister Carol; Jah Disciple (RAS) ‘89
  • Horace Andy – Ain’t No Sunshine; 10” (Cou$ins) Bill Wither cover
  • Skatalites – Coconut Rock; Studio One Scorchers (Soul Jazz) Instrumental album of the hour

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Set 7:

  • Alpha & Omega – The Dub Is Out There; Serious Joke (A & O) 2002 X Files Theme

<Smile Jamaica’s X-Files 2015 review; 57 sec.>

  • Conroy Smith – Original Sound;  Firehouse Revolution (Pressure Sounds) King Tubby dancehall prod’n
  • Sister June – Tell You What Police Can Do; Dancehall Roots (Metro) ‘86
  • Flourgon – Build a Spliff; Dancehall Techniques (Pressure Sounds) herbtune

Betty Anreasson Alien Abductee

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Betty Andresson – her story on the X Files

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Set 8: Mutant Dub female set

  • Botom Botom – La bien / Le mal – This is Not a Stereotype (Hammerbass) 2006 Fr.: Mutant Set w/ female vox
  • Little Annie & the Legally Jammin’ – Take It From Me; Little Annie & the Legally Jammin (Italic) 2003 Germ.
  • Soom T – Weedhawks; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2008 Glasgow weedstep
  • Abassi All Stars feat. Sis Sanae – Suffering; Showcase (Universal Egg) 2006 UK
  • Abassi All Stars feat. Minoo – December; 10” No Answer EP (Universal Egg) 2008 UK
  • Alpha & Omega – Show Me a Purpose; Sound System Dub (ROIR) ’95 UK trance dub

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-nuary 16, 2016 (Stream + Tracklist): Green Bay Bowl Packers!

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My dilemma: Spin Reggae on Smile Jamaica or watch my beloved Green Bay Packers

Greetings,

Smile Jamaica has three obsessions, in no particular order:

  1. Reggae and dubwize
  2. San Francisco Giants baseball – even year so book a World Series victory
  3. Green Bay Packers NFL

I ‘n’ I suffered through decades of mediocrity until they got good in the 90’s with Brett Favre and now Aaron Rodgers.

So I had a dilemma: Green Bay vs. Arizona right during Smile Jamaica.

Praise Jah for DVR. Gah, what a gut shot ending to yet another amazing Hail Mary.

When do pitchers and catchers report?

<Green Bay Packers or Smile Jamaica; 25 sec.>

bless, robt

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Lightning does strike in the same place twice. Too bad the Defense peed it down their legs. Fiyah burn!

Smile Jamaica Annotated Playlist: Jah-nuary, 9 2016: pics, captions, Reggae History Lessons, soundbytes; 39 sec.

Set 1:

  • Chantells – Children of Jah; Waiting in the Park (Phase One) ’77 UK vinyl
  • King Tubby Meets Roots Radics – Country Gal Dub; Dangerous Dub (Greensleeves) ’81 Dub Album of the Hour
  • Zema feat. Martin Luther King Jr. – Free At Last Dub; Black Sheep (Melchizidek); dub w/ MLK’s speech vox

<Livicated to Martin Luther King, Jr; 24 sec..>

  • Augustus Pablo – Jah Light Version; East of the River Nile (Shanachie) ’78 bonus track
  • Jah Woosh – This Train; Best of (Cactus) ‘74
  • Yellowman – Sinsemilla; Dancehall 2 (Soul Jazz) ’83 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement

<Bern One Down – Vermont to legalize in 2016? 20 sec.>

  • Cha Cha feat. Ranking Joe – You’ll Never Know; 10” EP (Above Rock) 2010 female Chinese singer w/ JA deejay; 19 sec.
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Vermont Legislature may legalize the Seven Leaf in 2016. Five down, 45 to go?

Set 2:

  • Bunny Wailer – Peace Talks; Crucial! (Shanachie) ’83 aka Ceasefire; herbtune

<Livicated to my ancestral home, Iran – no nuclear weapons! 17 sec.>

  • Likkle Mai – Rock to Sleep; Roots Candy (Beat) 2005 Jah-pon female singer of Dry & Heavy
  • Johnny Osbourne – We Need Love; 100% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) ’79; over Spinners I’ll Be Around riddim
  • Ijahman Levi – Ceasefire pt. 1; Two Double Six 701 (Jahmani) ’95; Ijahman’s prison number when bust for herb; 16 sec.
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“Let’s go back to the White House and put some Bunny Wailer on the Hi Fi. Ceasefire and light the chalice!”

Set 3:

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Get Up Stand Up; Talkin’ Blues (Tuff Gong) live at KSAN Radio, San Francisco; Oct. 1973

<Live in the Studio – KSAN San Francisco; 100 sec.>

  • Crucial – Them Want I; Hits of the Past (Links) ’79 female singjay
  • The Heptones – My Whole World Is Empty Without You; Meaning of Life (Trojan) Supremes cover
  • Colour Red – Natty Dread a Get Stronger; 10” (Jah Tubbys)  2006 militant steppers
  • Bim Sherman – Rub a Dub (Century) Dub Album of the Hour

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Set 4: Best of Smile Jamaica – 26 Years; 18 sec.

  • Max Romeo – Smile Out of Style; War ina Babylon (Mango) ’76:
  • Sister Carol – Free Food Ticket; Black Cinderella (Jah Life) ’84; cover of Nicky Thomas “Love of the Common People”
  • Roots Radics – Mash It Up; Freelance (Kingdom) ‘85

<Held hostage in UK until they delivered an album for Kingdom Records; 39 sec.>

  • Lee “Scratch” Perry & Dub Syndicate – Night Train; Time Boom X De Devil Dead (ON U Sound) ’87
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Roots Radics

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

  • Marcia Griffiths – Truly; At Studio One (Studio One) Vinyl is Vital Set; ‘80 JA
  • Brimstone – Back Weh; Atra 10 Track (Atra) UK
  • Dr. Alimantado –  How Long; (Tell Me You Are Having a) Wonderful Time (Keyman) ’88 UK
  • In Crowd – Riding High; Roots Rock Reggae (Creole) ’78 Fr.
  • Joe White – My Guiding Star; Sounds of Jamaica Top Ten (Studio One) ’69 JA
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The Aretha Franklin of Reggae

Set 6:

  • Peter Tosh – Glass House; Complete Captured Live (EMI America) 8/23/83 in Los Angeles
  • Phyllis Dillon – Leave it In the Hands of Love; Midnight Confessions (Westside) Rocksteady
  • Benjamin Zephaniah – Get High; Rasta (Workers Playtime) ‘83 UK dub poet herbtune
  • Gussie P – Who’s Safe; 10” (Sip a Cup) 2003 UK feat. MLK I Have a Dream speech

<Martin Luther King Jr. – I Have a Dream; 22 sec.>

  • Sly & the Revolutionaries – Burn Pipe Dub; Sensi Dub vol. 1 (Original) Dub Album of the Hour

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Set 7:

  • June Lodge – Someone Loves You Honey; Reggae Pulse 3 – Love Songs (RAS) ’80 Charley Pride cover

<Utah Islanders’ favorite: June Lodge C & W Lovers Rock; 14 sec.>

  • Coco Tea – The Weed; Weed a Bun vol. 1 (Charm) 2005 herbtune
  • Aldubb – What the Funk Is Dubstep?; 10” EP (One Drop) 2008 Germ. Dubstep

<Foreshadowing Dubstep? 5 sec.>

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Country & Western Lovers Rock much beloved by Utah’s Island community

Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • Hollie Cook – Ari Up; Twice (Mr. Bongo) 2014 livicated to Slits singer who passed

<Livicated to Ari Up; 28 sec.>

  • New Age Steppers feat. Ari Up – Fade Away; New Age Steppers (Statik) ’81 Junior Byles cover w/ female vox. Adrian Sherwood prod’n
  • Armagideon – Eternal Combustion; Steppin Forward (Armagideon Sounds) ’95 herbtune
  • Word Sound I-Powa; 6000 Dubplates – Live From Planet Crooklyn (WordSound) illbient
  • Zion Train – Universal Communication; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK trance dub
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Livicated to Ari Up of The Slits. Johnny Rotten was her Stepdad

Words of Wisdom:

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives Jah-nuary 9, 2016 (Stream + Tracklist): Winter Roots ‘n’ Dubbers

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Utah ski tradition: Be coming down the mountain in time for 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement on Smile Jamaica

Greetings,

Now what? Settling in after the Holidays? A week before school. Cold, wet and gray. Skiers love to get above SLC’s haze and shred some powder.

I am horrible at skiing. But I know many locals love to spend a day on the hill and chillax on their way back to the Valley in time for 4:20 on Smile Jamaica.

New year, more Roots. Same as it ever was for 26+ Years from Smile Jamaica. Forward til Spring!; 34 sec.

bless, robt

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Rasta variant of the Snowplow method: the Skank-plow

Set 1:

  • Heptones –  Can’t Hide From Jah; Good Life (Greensleeves) ‘79 UK vinyl
  • Sly & Robbie feat. Bob Dylan – I For an Eye; Doctor Dread: Theremin in Dub (Tsosume) 2013 Czech; Dub Album of the Hour: I & I w/ theremin

<Theremin instrument inna dubwize; 24 sec.>

  • Peter Tosh – Don’t Look Back; Complete Captured Live (EMI America) Aug. 23, 1983: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles
  • Dillinger – Jah Love; Cocaine (Charly) ’83 over Linval Thompson’s “Twelve Tribes of Israel”
  • Frankie Paul – Pass the Tu-Sheng-Peng; Pass the Tu-Sheng-Peng (Greensleeves) ’84 4:20 Cannabis Service
  • African Pearl – Zion Bound; 10” (Ariwa) 2005 UK female
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Inventor of the self-named Theremin. Go on the Google. Amazing story

Set 2:

  • The Wailers – Kinky Reggae; Talkin’ Blues (Tuff Gong) live on KSAN Radio – SF: Oct. 1973

<Wailers Live on radio station KSAN; 46 sec.>

  • Hollie Cook – Postman; Twice (Mr. Bongo)  2014 dawta of Sex Pistol Paul Cook
  • See-I – Dinner of Herb; Dinner of Herb EP (Exile) 2003 mutant dub herbtune
  • Dan I – Like a Seed; 10” (Moa Anbassa) 2008 It. Dub
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Hosted the Wailers in studio, Oct., 1973

Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica – 26 Years; 15 sec.

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson – Fite Dem Back; Forces of Victory (Mango) ’79 UK dub poet

<Fighting vs. The National Front; 9 sec.>

  • Aswad – Warrior Charge; Showcase (Mango) ’81 UK extended rmx instrumental
  • Mutabaruka – De System; Check It! (Alligator) ’83 Chicago blues label: JA dub poet
  • Aisha – Tribulation; High Priestess (Ariwa) ’88 UK lovers rock
  • Pablo Moses – Proverbs Extraction Dub; Pave the Way Dub (Tabou1) ’81; Dub Album of the Hour
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Linton Kwesi Johnson – dub poet activist

Set 4:

  • Bunny Wailer – Trouble on the Road Again; Crucial! (Shanachie) ’82
  • Rhoda Dakar – Money Worries; Cleaning in Another Woman’s Kitchen (Moon Ska World) 2007: UK 2 Tone sings Maytones classic, acoustic

<Bodysnatchers, Special AKA vet; >

24 sec.

  • Chuck Fenda – All About Weed; Culture Jugglin’ (Massive B) 2005 – herbtune
  • Black Uhuru – I Love King Selassie; 10” (Jammy$) ‘77

<Michael Rose, Errol “Tarzan” Nelson, Don Carlos; 14 sec.>

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Set 5: Vinyl is Vital Set

  • Don Carlos & Gold – Roots Rock Party; Showdown vol. 3 (Hitbound): Vinyl is Vital set
  • Junior Byles – Cally Weed; Rasta No Pickpocket (Nighthawk) ’86: herbtune out of St. Louis
  • Niccodeemos (sic) – Spar With Me; Dance Hall Style (Black Joy) ’82 UK deejay
  • Triston Palma – Joker Lover; Joker Lover (Jah Guidance) ’82 US
  • Rita Marley – Beauty of God’s Plan; Rita Marley (Trident) ’80 UK

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Set 6:

  • Bad Brains – Jah Love; Into the Future (Megaforce) 2012 punkdub Rasta DC reunion

<Bad Brains, never The Bad Brains; 10 sec.>

  • Gracy & the Herbman Band – Forward Up; See Mi Yah (FunFundvierzig) ’91 Germ. Herbtune w/ female vox
  • 4th Street Orchestra – Hawaii 5-0; 10” (Rama) ’77 TV theme
  • Jah Power Band – Sensi Dub Vol. 7 (Original) Dub Album of the Hour
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Always: Bad Brains. Never: The Bad Brains

Set 7: UFOria

  • Boxcutter – SPACEBASS; Arecibo Message (Planet Mu) 2009 UK dubstep – UFOria Set

<Arecibo, Puerto Rico – Searching For Aliens thanks to Carl Sagan; 37 sec.>

  • Lee “Scratch” Perry – UFO Attack (Ambient Version; Technomajikal (ROIR) ‘97
  • Derrick Morgan – Man Pon Moon;  Original Reggae Recordings 1968-1970 (Trybute)
  • Moon Invader – Moon Walk; Greater Jamaican Moon Walk – Reggay (Treasure Isle) ’69 Rock Steady instrumental
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Carl Sagan: Searched for Aliens while smoking spliff

Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • Alpha & Omega – Freedom Fighters; Sound System Dub (ROIR) ’95: trance dub tribute to Bob Marley w/ female vox
  • Soom T – Never Get Caught; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2008 female weedstepper from Glasgow

<Weedstepper! 14 sec.>

  • Balkan Beat Box – No Man’s Land; Give (NatGeo) 2011 Israeli/NYC

<Undead romance between a dead witch and a ghost. Strange; 21 sec.>

  • Burial – Ghost Hardware; Untrue (Hyperdub) UK dubstep
  • Burning Babylon – Manuka Skank; Beat, Beat, Beat (I-Tones) Massachusetts
  • Beat Pharmacy feat. Spaceape – Ghostship; Wikkid Times (Deep Space) 2008 South African w/ UK dub poet
  • Luciano & Sis Sanae – What We Gonna Do + Free Jah Children; Abassi All Stars: Showcase (Universal Egg) UK
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Soom T weedstepper cutie from Glasgow

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-cember 5, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Decks the Halls with Boughs of Collie!

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Sant–Ahhh!

<“Deck the Halls w/ boughs of Collie!”>

Greetings,

Been on the road Cratedigging, so haven’t had anything uploaded lately. Tis the season so I’ve got some Holiday vinyl and all the usual delights:  1 min. 05

bless, robt

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So Santa Say: Mistletoe fi di good gals, coal fi di bad Abwoys!

Annotated Playlist: Smile Jamaica – Jah-cember 5, 2015:

Set 1:

  • Barrington Levy – Don’t Give Up; Poor Man Style (Trojan) ’82 UK vinyl
  • Joe Gibbs & the Professionals – All-Mighty Dub vol. 3 (Joe Gibbs) ’78 Dub Album of the Hour
  • Black Roots – Come and Sing; On the Ground (Sugar Shack) 2012 UK Roots Reunion
  • Althea & Donna – If You Don’t Love Jah; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin Frontline) ’78 deejay duo
  • Everton Blender – Bob Marley/World Corruption; Live at the White River Reggae Bash (Heartbeat) 2000 Tribute to Bob
  • Owen Gray – Rizla; 30 Wicked Hearts (Bushranger) ’77; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; rolling papers

<Rizla papers – French rolling paper company founded, 1532; 14 sec.>

  • Earl Sixteen & U Brown – Years of Slavery/Tired of Slavery; 10” (Merge) ‘79
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Preferred by 96% of Dread Rastas when wrapping up a draw!

Set 2: Wailers Family Tree

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Talkin’ Blues; Talkin’ Blues (Tuff Gong) live at KSAN radio: Oct. 20, 1973: Wailers Family Tree set

<Oct. 21st 1973 – Live Radio performance: KSAN, San Francisco; 1 min. 21 sec.>

  • Bunny Wailer – Crucial; Crucial! (Shanachie) ’94 Roots Best of
  • Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers – Say People; Hey World! (EMI America) ‘86
  • Peter Tosh – Not Gonna Give It Up; Complete Captured Live (EMI America) Greek Theater, Los Angeles, California: 8/23/83
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Sly Stone kicked the Wailers off tour for upstaging his 1973 funk and soul

Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica – 26 Years

  • Aswad – Rebel; Rebel Souls (Mango) ’84 UK dancehall update
  • Steel Pulse – Not King James Version; Babylon the Bandit (Elektra) ’85 UK
  • Sister Carol – Jah Disciple; Jah Disciple (RAS) ’89
  • Lee “Scratch” Perry & George Faith – I’ve Got the Groove; From the Secret Laboratory (Mango) ’90 Adrian Sherwood co-production; update of George Faith
  • Keith Hudson – Image; Brand (Pressure Sounds) ’77 Dub Album of the Hour
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Best of 26 Years of Smile Jamaica. Bought on Haight Ashbury, Rough Trade Records

Set 4:

  • Mighty Diamonds – Pass the Kutchie; Big Blunts vol. 1 (Tommy Boy) ’82 herbtune
  • Aisha – Crisis; True Roots (Ariwa) ‘94
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Pass di Kutchie pan di lef’ haan side!

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital Christmas 

  • Mutabaruka – Postpone Christmas; High Times All Stars Explosion (Alligator) ’85

<Bah, humbug! 8 sec.>

  • Tennessee & the Silvertones – Little Drummer Boy; Christmas Time (Studio One) JA
  • Jennifer Lara – Hands of the Lord; Christmas Stylee (Studio One) JA
  • Eek a Mouse – The Night Before Christmas; Reggae Christmas (RAS)  ’84 Wash’n DC
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Ho, ho, ho!

Set 6: Rockers do Reggae

  • The Members – Rat Up a Drainpipe; At Night at the Chelsea Nightclub (Virgin) ‘79UK New Wavers: Rockers do Reggae Set
  • The Ruts – Jah War; The Crack (Virgin) ’79 UK punk rockers
  • The Heptones – Hypocrite; Meaning of Life (Trojan); Riddim Shower (1): ’72 original vox
  • The Hitters (aka Brinsley Schwarz) – Hypocrite; Hen’s Teeth (Edsel); Riddim Shower (2) ’73 UK pub rockers cover + version
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Nick Lowe (fourth from Left) and his pub group Brinsley Schwarz

Set 7:

  • Gato Negro – Armageddon; Black Cat Dub (ROIR) ’91 Nigerian artist; Dub Album of the Hour
  • Hollie Cook – Desdemona; Twice (Mr. Bongo) 2013 ghost story
  • Thievery Corporation – Assault on Babylon; Sounds From the Thievery Hi Fi (ESL) ’96 Wash’n DC
  • Simon Bogle & Ghetto Priest – Dry Bone; 10” (Green Tea) 2002 UK
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Hollie Cook

Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • Burning Babylon – Wires to Riot; Beat, Beat, Bat (I-Tones); 2008 Massachusetts
  • Jah Works – Turn to Jah; Turn to Jah (ROIR) ‘96
  • Terra Firma – Mineral; Sounds From the Ground (Waveform) 2000 US
  • Zion Train – A Better Day; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK trance dub w/ female vox
  • Rockers Hi-Fi; Look For a Spark; Rockers to Rockers (Gee Street) ’95 UK

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