currently playing

justin hinds - babylon children [jezebel]

 

dub specialist - dub me girl [better dub]

 

hugh mundell - book of life [africa must be free by 1983]

 

Wonderful tonight - Gregory isaacs

This is actually a cover of the famous rock n roll song of the same name but its amazing, i love it.

Oh and bluska, i would post new pics of grown out dreads but i dont wanna post pics until i am happy with their progress, takes a long long long time and i dont want to show them off until they are fully dreaded.

Jah Bless.

 

alton ellis - why birds follow spring [mr soul of jamaica]

word is that mr ellis is very sick now, sorry to hear this, pray he gets better

 

alton and hortense ellis - willow tree [alton ellis and hortense]

http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20081009/news/news1.html

ALTON LOSING CANCER BATTLE - Family says hospitalised singer not doing well

Family members of legendary reggae/rocksteady singer, Alton Ellis, say the singer, who has been battling cancer for several months, is not doing well.

Speaking with The Star last night from the United Kingdom, Clive Ellis, one of Alton's sons, revealed that the family was not very optimistic as it relates to Alton surviving the fight with the disease. "We can't say we are hoping for the best in this situation. The family is looking for the worst," Clive said regretfully. "He is gasping for air. He is not talking, he is not moving, I don't think he is going to come out on top of this fight." Clive said the family was still trying to keep strong in these difficult times.


He said his father has been in the hospital for a number of weeks, battling lymphatic cancer. Rumours started circulating yesterday that Alton Ellis had died. However, family members dispelled the gossip. Clive noted: "He (Alton) isn't gone, he is still here. I'm actually in the hospital now, he is very weak, but he is not gone (dead)."
Alton Ellis, a father of 15 children, came to the fore of Jamaican music in the 1950s and has since made his mark with hits such as Cry Tough and Girl I've Got A Date among others.


The vocalist's first wife, Pearl, and his sister, Hortense, both died on October 19, in 2005 and 2000, respectively.
Tragedy also struck the Ellis family earlier this year when Alton's sister, Veronica Ellis, was brutally murdered just before Mother's Day, along with her teenage grandson.

 

leroy brown - gone gone (color barrier)

 

heptones - baby [rock steady ska]

 

the carib beats - el bang bang (rock a shacka)

 

cornell campbell - jah jah's dub children [dubbing at randy's]

 

the techniques - my girl (classics)

 

Marcus Say Jah No Dead - Burning Spear

I recently watched 'Rockers' which is a film starring many reggae artists as themselves and the lead singer of Burning Spear, (forget his name, a sin i know) he sang an acapella version of this song and its just amazing.

 

yum, the lead singer of burning spear is...

burning spear

[fka winston rodney]

me listening to toots and the maytals - he is real [pain in my belly]

 

bongo man byfield - bongo land [ska volume 2]

ska-nyah version of 'wonderful world'!

 

ras imruh asha - house of babylon (spiritual warrior)

 

Marcus Garvey (live) - Burning Spear


This version is a bit more up tempo then the studio version, its on youtube by the user 12tribu if you want to listen to it.

 

glad to hear you digging the spear, he is tops

i have been having my ass kicked all day by dillinger and bunny lee's 'talking blues'

but am currently listening to tapper zukie - simpleton badness [man ah warrior]

 

jah thomas - bicycle skank [stop yu loafin]

 

dillinger - jah love [talking blues]

[on the deejay tip]

 

big youth - mosiah garvey [natty universal dread]