Like many, I was saddened to hear of the passing of the great Prince Buster in September and though I wish I had shown my respects by crea...

Changing gears but not necessarily changing themes... it is of course still October around here and I figured we'd devote this week to...

This week has been pretty much one long "Conversation."  Here's what you're gonna hear when you download and enjoy the 5...

One more Conversation for this week before we stomp down the clutch and switch gears next week and this one is venturing back away from t...

Keeping it simple today... Joseph Jackson AKA Ranking Joe is up next in the 2016 Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular with a track called ...

It's a regular 2fer Friday here at Distinctly Jamaican Sounds!  Not only did I share the 10th track in the 2016 Spooktacular, "Ob...

Years ago, one of the write-ups for a track I featured in a Halloween Spooktacular featured an article that originally appeared in the Gle...

The great Winston Foster AKA Yellowman is up next obviously on the same My Conversation riddim we've been groovin' to so far this ...

Wilbert AKA Willie Francis started his career during the rocksteady era, cutting his first track "Warn The People" for the great...

Okay folks I'm taking the easy way out for today's tune by copying and pasting what I wrote about Lone Ranger's "Barnabas...

Mark Williams AKA The Kaiser, is the driving force and one of the originators of Washington DC's preeminent reggae oldies nig...

Okay folks we're easing into something here... and like I said on Saturday, I'm kinda diggin' that the 365 Day Jamaican Music ...

Toby Gohn, AKA Rice & Peas, has a deep appreciation, respect and knowledge of Jamaican music and is one of the originators and key ...

And since today is officially Columbus Day, we'll give that subject matter another visit.  This one is called appropriately "Chri...

One of the nice things about doing these daily posts, especially during October, is that I can finally feature a track for Columbus Day an...

We're winding down the countdown - only three more uninterrupted weekly mixes left before I take a long-needed rest from daily bloggin...

Any song that makes reference to Peter Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein and the music video for Michael Jackson's Thriller is okay in my bo...

Short and sweet today... This is one of the records I've been sitting on for years and finally after festering away in the duppy box f...

Hey, don't say I never gave you something additional this October!  When I first featured Jackie Paris' tune "Run For Your Li...

When you hear today's next terrifying tune you're going to think to yourself, "what the hell is going on here?  That doesn...

Another spooky tune to keep you inna Halloween mood!  This one is called "Ghost Rider" and it was recorded by Derrick Harriott...

Blood, it's the life-force of we mammals.  We don't think about it being one of our most cherished possessions and it usually rem...

The 340th track in the 365 Day Jamaican Music Challenge is "Phantom" by the Dynamites.  The Dynamites were the studio band for C...

We have featured quite a few Derrick Morgan tracks in quite a few Spooktaculars over the last eleven years and this year is not gonna be a...

Originally appearing in 2013's Spooktacular, today's track "Creeping Version" by the Upsetters is the b-side version of ...