Distinctly Jamaican Sounds
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

I Should Be Ashamed! My Summer Sounds Compilation

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Still haven't had time to do a real update... I should have just taken the easy route and announced a summer hiatus but being that we...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Real Update Coming Soon... A Few Random Tracks In The Mean Time

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Sorry for the lack of new posts over the last couple weeks but I was invited to spin some music at this month's DC Soundclash and I'...
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Friday, June 16, 2006

Thanks Soca Warriors... It Was Fun While It Lasted

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I got together yesterday to watch the match with my English friend Joe and I was quite surprised to walk into a bar in downtown Baltimore an...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Junjo Lawes Discography

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No music today but I wanted to share my new blog still under constuction. Compiling and collecting Junjo's output on the three labels ...
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Friday, June 09, 2006

In Honor Of The World Cup

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First off thanks to Hearwax for reminding me to get this off my chest... Being in the States you'd hardly know that one, if not thee gre...
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

The Album "Superstar Yellowman Has Arrived With Toyan" - Or Is It?

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Keeping with the Yellowman on this post... Available for your listening pleasure is the 1982 Joe Gibbs release "Superstar Yellowman Has...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

5 More From The King

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As you can see from the photo (sorry it's so blurry - the security at the concert venue were being real A-holes about taking pictures).....
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Friday, May 26, 2006

Desmond Dekker 1941 - 2006

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Taken from the Jamaica Gleaner - May 26, 2006 "Desmond Adolphus Dacres, more widely known around the globe as Desmond Dekker, is dead. ...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Tappa Zukie - Living In The Ghetto

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In conjunction with Hearwax, Rockers Radio and Schrikdraad... it is my pleasure to present another piece of the Tappa/Tapper Zukie discograp...
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Friday, May 12, 2006

Ranking Joe Inna Combination Style On Waistline

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Ranking Joe (born Joseph Jackson, 1959) got into the music business as a youth originally calling himself DJ Jolly. At 15 he went to Studio...
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Bob Marley 1945 - 1981

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Sorry no music shares today... but I hope you'll stick around to read my testimonal on the importance of Bob Marley in my life. I almost...
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Another Request... Peter Tosh Live At The One Love Peace Concert

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Since time is limited today and because someone else has written it so consisely, I’m quoting directly from the thorough Peter Tosh biograph...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

By Request... 3 Rockers International Singles

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In response to a request I’m sharing 3 Augustus Pablo produced singles on the Rockers International label that I picked up at an Eek A Mouse...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The High School MC... Billy Boyo

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Billy Boyo (born Billy Rowe, September 21, 1969) was probably the most prolific of the early-80’s child MC’s, sure Beenie Man was the only o...
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Wailing With The Wailing Souls

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The Wailing Souls, originally known as the Renegades, first consisted of Lloyd “Bread” McDonald, George “Buddy” Haye and Winston “Pipe” Matt...
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Five From The Original Little John... And No I'm Not Talking About Robin Hood's Sidekick

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Little John (born John McMorris, 1970) first recorded “51 Storm” at the age of nine with Captain Sinbad for the Youth In Progress label and ...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

I-Roy & Prince Jazzbo At War

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I was driving to work sometime last month and up popped the song by Prince Jazzbo called “Gal Boy I-Roy.” It sparked an immediate interest ...
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Sunday, April 02, 2006

Scratchin' For A Guinness

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I was forwarded the link to some mpeg files from a Guinness ad campaign that featured Lee "Scratch" Perry hawking his favorite st...
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Mutabaruka's People's Court I & II

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Mutabaruka (Allan Hope, 1952) was born Catholic but discovered Rastafari at an early age. Around that time he also got involved in the Blac...
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Monday, March 27, 2006

A Couple Tunes From Dennis Walks

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After reading the write-up about Dennis Walks on Schrikdraad I combed through my collection to come up with a couple more tunes from this ...
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Friday, March 24, 2006

Bob Andy Retrospective

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Gonna go a little more old school with this post… Bob Andy (born Keith Anderson 1944) was one of the original members of the legendary Studi...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Papa Briggy Takes The Mic

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Brigadier Jerry (born Robert Russell) got started DJing, as many with a similar cultural fashion did, on U-Roy's King Stur Gav Hi-Fi. I...
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