Here is another spooky ska side... this one is called "Dracula" by Desmond Dekker and it was recorded at Beverly's in 1964 a...

Ethan Yukna is a big fan of reggae music and someone that I have known for years, even though we didn't realize that we actually kne...

Let's close out the work week with one more creepy track...well, this one is more creepy in title than it is in content because it...

In the fourth grade my parents coerced me into playing the trumpet in the elementary school band.  I really wanted to play the drums and w...

Gordon "Big Gordy" Robertson, based in Barnsley England is a top-notch selector and DJ of Jamaican music from Ska to Regg...

It's the 355th track in the 365 Day Jamaican Music Challenge and I'm throwin' down yet another spooky ska number for ya!  This...

Nate Taiapa AKA Nate Ness Monster, born and raised in Hamilton New Zealand, is the man behind GO FEET! Radio, a excellent weekly prog...

The story of Annie Palmer, the White Witch of Rose Hall, has been discussed here a multitude of times and no one did a better retelling of...

In all my years doing the Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular and this blog in general, I never had such a hard time doing a write-up for one ...

The Wailers recorded "Jumbie Jamboree" for Coxsone Dodd and had it released on Studio One in 1965.  Based on the classic "Z...

Aside from growing up on the same dead end street here in rural Maryland and being a life-long friend, Nick Jones is a huge reggae fan...

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...