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.
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.
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
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.
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
When it looks like this in SLC – that’s called smog
Greetings,
This is my 29th winter in Salt Lake City. The air gets worse and worse. When it looks like the above, it ain’t from Green Smoke.
The weather propagandists call it “inversion.” Fiyah burn that! It’s smog.
You do what you can, but at some point in the 100 days of gunk, it’s gonna hit you. I am dealing with it right now. Cold, congestion and cough. I hacked and sneezed and wheezed for 3 hours of Reggae Radio
Head to the pharmacy for some Allegra-D. No Madam pharmacist. I ‘n’ I don’t cook di meth we smoke sensimilla!
So I’m pretty froggy this week on Smile Jamaica.
Here is what i have in store for you! Keep out of hazy daze and hunker down for some heavy roots for the cabin fevah! 56 sec.
bless, robt
aka Mr. Bassie
Jamaican Netty Pot
Set 1:
Cornel (sic) Campbell – My Country; Roots Rock Reggae (Creole) ’78 Fr. Vinyl
Black Roots – I Believe (Dub); On the Ground in Dub (Sugar Shack) 2013 UK Dub Album of the Hour
Capital Letters – Out of Africa; Headline News (Greensleeves) ’79 UK youth group
<UK Reggae better than the CIA News Network; 11 sec.>
Eric “Rebel Lion” Bubbles – Babylon People; Roots of Black People (Progressive)
Prince Mohammed – Come Mek We Rub a Dub; 600% Dynamite (Soul Jazz)
<Deejay Prince Mohammed = Singer Junior Brammer; 4 sec.>
Frankie Paul – Dem a Go Feel It; Tidal Wave (Greensleeves) ‘85
Max Romeo – Smokey Room; War ina Babylon (Mango) ’76 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Horace Andy – Mr. Bassie; 10” (Glimmer) ‘78
Much better than the CIA News Network’s Headline News
Set 2: Best of 26 Years – Smile Jamaica
Burning Spear – We Built This City; People of the World (Blue Moon) ’86
Judy Mowatt – On Your Mark; Only a Woman (Shanachie) ‘82
<I Three, I Threes or The I Three? Judy, Marcia & Rita; 15 sec.>
Wailing Souls – Ishen Tree; On the Rocks (Greensleeves) ’83 herbtune: riddim shower (1) vox
Josey Wales – Stalk of Sensimilla; Outlaw Josey Wales (Greensleeves) ’83 herbtune; riddim shower (2) dj
Orig-Jah-nal Roots Dawta
Set 3:
Peter Tosh – Equal Rights/Downpressor Man; Complete Captured Live (EMI America) live at Greek Theatre, Los Angeles: 8/23/83
Althea & Donna – Love On Another; Uptown Top Ranking (Object Enterprise) ‘82
10 Foot Ganja Plant – Ringers Rock; Shake Up the Place (ROIR) 2011 upstate NY roots instrumental
Black Uhuru – Hard Times; 10” (Jammy$) ‘77
Tenor Saw – Fever Dub (Blue Moon) ’85 Dub Album of the Hour
Sassy deejay duo
Set 4:
Bunny Wailer – Unity; Crucial! (Shanachie) ‘81
Gracy & the Herbman Band – It’s So Nice; See Me Yah (Funfundvierzig) ’91 Germ. Female singer
Roman Stewart – Wisdom of Solomon; 10” (Sip a Cup) 2001 UK herbtune
<Weed of Wisdom grown on King Solomon’s grave; 11 sec.>
Cannabis the Weed of Wisdom found growing on Solomon’s grave
Set 5: Vinyl is Vital
Fun Boy Three – Farmyard Connection; Waiting (Chrysalis) ’83 UK herbtune w/ farmers Peter & Bob
<Peter & Bob – Farmers; 7 sec,>
Aura Lewis Meets Lee “Scratch” Perry – Full Experience (Blue Moon) Fr. EP w/ female vox
<Black Ark Studio; 17 sec.>
Azeem and Session – Love Don’t Put You Down; Live and Direct (M. Al’s) Oakland
Junior Byles – I Don’t Know; Rasta No Pickpocket (Nighthawk) ’86 St. Louis
Papa Finnigan and Junior Ranking – Step ina Dance; Two the Hard Way (Heartbeat) ’83 Cambridge, MA; deejay duo
Set 6:
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Slave Driver; Talkin’ Blues (Tuff Gong) live at KSAN radio Oct. ‘73
<Wailers live on SF radio; 48 sec.>
Natural Beauty – Nice Up Dancee; Nice Up Dancee (Rykodisc) ’86 herbtune: UK female trio; 12 sec.
Version feat. Humble-I – Can’t Keep I Down; 10” (Webcam Hi-Fi) 2007 Fr. Mutant Dub
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives – A+ “Bubbling wif a 2 spliff ‘n’ 2 Heineken. Nice Up Dancee!”
Set 7: UFO-ria
Sister Carol – Lost in a Space; Jah Disciple (RAS) ’89
<Sister Carol – not a fan of space travel; 10 sec.>
<Junior Byles nah like space travel either; 22 sec.
Lee “Scratch” Perry – African Hitchhiker; From the Secret Laboratory (Mango) ‘91
Audio Active – Space Children; Tokyo Space Cowboys (ON U Sound) ’94 Jah-pon Mutant Dub
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
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
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
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
<Mutant Dub New Year – Clean the Cobwebs out of yer Subwoofer!>
New Year Full of Bass on Smile Jamaica!
Greetings,
Happy New Yecade I start off every year with what I end the Ark-Ives with: Mutant Dub – modern dance, drum ‘n’ bass, downtro, lounge and trance with Rasta themes and Reggae echo.
bless, robt
<Smile Jamaica’s Definition of Mutant Dub>
Yoda jams up the Mutant Dubwize!
<Mutant Dub New Year – 3 Hour Roadmap; 34 sec.>
Acoustic Levitation inna Irie Meditation
Annotated Playlist for Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-nuary 2, 2016 – Mutant Dub New Year!
Set 1:
African Head Charge – Gospel Train; Songs of Praise (ON U Sound) ’91 UK: Mutant Dub New Year – 3 Hours
Burning Babylon – Dub Tropic; Garden of Dub (I-Tones) 2006 Mass.: Dub Album of the Hour
<Hey Donald Trump – Jesus was born a refugee; 14 sec.>
Ho Ho Highlights of this nice December Saturday the 12th before a massive Monday storm in Salt Lake City. Well nitty and gritty. Took me three hours to get from Sugar House to the University of Utah. About 3 miles. 1 min. 16 sec.
Christmas Stylee
Wailers Family Tree – Bob/Bunny/Joe Higgs Live in San Fran KSAN Radio; Peter Live in SoCal ’83. Bunny Roots Best Of
Vinyl Is Vinyl
UFO-ria Mutant Dubwize – in time for the new Star Wars flick!
Hey crowd a people: put the Prius in the garage until at least April!
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
So Santa Say: Mistletoe fi di good gals, coal fi di bad Abwoys!
<Dracula gets diabetes sucking High Fructose blood out of kiddies; 20 sec.>
Greetings,
Smile Jamaica loves Halloween. Or as I call it Jah-loween. Lots of black arts and superstition in Reggae music. I’ve tracked those Dark Arts for more than 20 years of 3 hour shows.
So this show is Deadicated not Livicated!
<20 plus years of Jah-loween; 32 sec.>
Doin’ the boneyard skank
Here is the road-map through the Boneyard: Witches, werewolves, vampires, duppies and ghosts, And all menagerie of Vampires.
Voodoo that you do!
Plus nuff sound bytes, Horror movie trailers: Blacula, The Thing With Two Head, Village of the Damned, Dr. Phibes, Halloween, X-Files, Twilight Zone.
Listen with the lights out.
curse, robt
<Welcome to Hell!>
Smile Jamaica Zombie Jamboree Playlist:
Set 1:
<All Treats no Tricks; 8 sec.>
Ini Kamoze – Hole in the Pumpkin; Shocking Out (Greensleeves) ‘87
<For 20 years I have led off each Jah-loween Showcase with Ini Kamoze; 12 sec.>
Scientist – Voodoo Curse; Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) ’81 dub to Michael Prophet
<Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires; 11 sec.>
Lee “Scratch” Perry & Dub Syndicate – Train to Doomsville; Pay It All Back vol. 2 (ON U Sound) ‘88
<Scratch: Pick up your Cross and follow me! 23 sec.>
Black Uhuru – Vampire; Sinsemilla (Mango) ‘80
The Toyes – Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; Boris Pickett cover
GG All Stars – Haunted House; 12” (Hit Disco) ‘79
Scratch – Pick up your Cross and follow me!
Set 2:
<Tribute to the Undead>
Keith Hudson – Darkest Night; Flesh of My Skin, Blood of My Blood (Atra) ’75
Michael Prophet – Satan; Rootsman (Ariwa) ‘99
Garland Jeffreys & Big Youth – Graveyard Rock; Escape Artist (Epic) ’81 black NY rocker
<Garland Jeffreys – NYC Rocker; 17 sec.>
Barrington Levy – Murderer; 12” (Jah Life); ’84 Vampires dem suck your blood
Graveyard Rock – don’t get stoned on my tombstone
Set 3:
Max Romeo – I Chase the Devil; War in a Babylon (Mango) ’76 Lee “Scratch” Perry/Black Ark
Milton Henry – Them a Devil; Who Do You Think I Am? (Wackies) ’85
Devon Irons – Ketch Vampire; Baffling Smoke Signal (Heartbeat) ’76 Lee “Scratch” Perry/Black Ark
Early B – Ghost Busters; Ghost Busters (Black Solidarity) ‘85
Barnabas Collins + Graveyard Skank – Lone Ranger; On the Other Side of Dub (Studio One) ’77 Soap Opera vampire
<Barnabas Collins – Dark Shadows vampire; 14 sec.>
Barnabas Collins – he’ll chew your neck like Wrigley’s
Set 4: Vinyl Halloween
Gladiators – Duppy Conqueror; Gladiators (Virgin Front Line) ’80 Bob Marley cover; Duppy = Jamaican Ghost
Tino – Wolfman Is Everwhere; Hallowe’en Dub (Tino’s) 2002
Kode9 + Spaceape – Ghost Town; 5 Years of Hyperdub (Hyperdub) 2009; Specials cover
Dan I & King Kietu – Vampire + Dub Down the Vampire; Rastafari Judgement Fire (Imperial Roots) 2009 Italian dub
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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