Happy Halloween!! I am amazed at how quick this month went and even more amazed that it is Halloween!  We have reached the end-of-the-road...

What Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular would be complete without some kind of reference to Annie Palmer?  For those who have been around thi...

And yet another great early reggae track to keep you shivering... or at least loosening your collar.  This record, "Take Your Han...

Ah, this is a good one!  We're up to the final four in the mix and we keep the creepy compilation rolling with a rockin' early/ski...

Welcome back to the final week of the 2014 Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular!  I can't find any background information about Jah Skerta ...

We've reached the second to last Friday in October and that means one thing... if you haven't gotten your costume ready for Hall...

The story of Mr. Brown is one that I've addressed a couple times in years past.  So instead of spending a lot of time rewriting I'...

Up next is the sixteenth track in our mix and it's called "Supernatural Thing" by Richard Ace and as you can clearly see on ...

Here you will find my tribute mix to the legendary John Holt... it took me a while to compile the playlist because I kept finding more s...

Up next in the mix is a great tune by Leo Graham and the Upsetters... well technically, "Black Bat" is only credited to the Upse...

Peter Tosh, was described rather succinctly by the website The Talking Drum ... "A champion of human rights, throughout his life Pete...

Michael Prophet's (born Michael George Haynes in 1957) distinctive "crying tenor" caught the ear of Yabby You who proceeded ...

Junior Dan began his career in music at the ripe old age of 15 when he picked up the bass for the Randy's Studio house-band the Genera...

Phillip J. Fullwood AKA Jah Marcus , is a percussionist, songwriter, composer and former collaborator with reggae legend Winston Rodn...

Saddened and shocked to hear of the atrocious murder of legendary drummer "Style Scott," one of the founding members of the Root...

Back in 2007 I featured a tune by Derrick Morgan called "Father Killam" - it's the story of an obeah man who is called on t...

We're back for another week of unadulterated terror... okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but you can be rest-assured tha...

Ever since I was a kid I've always enjoyed the Twilight Zone... there was something about these half-hour slices of the weird and supe...

Short and sweet today... Prince Buster is back again with another Spooktacular tune!  This one called "Bull Buck (And Duppy Conqueror...

I have received a few requests to re-up the 2013 Spooktacular... here ya go! 1.      Prince Jammy – Slaughterho...

Back again I see?  Well I've got another tune for you!  The sixth track in the 2014 Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular is, as the comic c...

We featured "Dub In Blood" from Skin, Flesh & Bones' Dub In Blood LP last year and I jumped right on the opportunity ...

Welcome back!  Barbados-born Dennis "Blackbeard" Bovell is the man ... a producer, a musician, a sound engineer and a true regga...

So you're back for more?  Of course you are!  The late great Crown Prince of Reggae, Dennis Brown, made an appearance in 2008's Sp...

Welcome back!  After nine years of Halloween spookiness you'd think that my list of tunes is getting pretty thin, you'd probably b...