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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.>

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

Words of Wisdom: