Here’s an early scorcher from Ken Boothe titled “Peace Time,” which appears on the excellent 1975 album “Jack Ruby Hi-Fi” on the Clappers label. 10 minutes of a young and hungry Ken Boothe over a Jack Ruby-produced riddim. OUCH!
Category Archives: 12″ Vinyl
Enos McLeod “Tel Aviv”/”Massicre Dub” 12 inch vinyl
This is as deep as it gets. The dub version here is scary good. Don’t pass on this one…
Album Of The Week! Barrington Levy – Teach Me Culture (1983)
BARRINGTON LEVY ‘TEACH ME CULTURE’ (LIVE AND LEARN) 1983
Without question, Barrington Levy’s strongest effort is 1983′s ‘Teach Me Culture,’ engineered by Crucial Bunny and featuring the Roots Radics. What rules this album is the Radics’ riddims, each one more dangerous than the previous, and Levy’s lyrics. Whether singing about a neglectful father in “One Foot Jo Jo” or hungry children in “Don’t Pretend,” this album transports us back to a time when Levy was still hungry. That he was prolific is not surprising. That he was able to continually come with material this strong for some 15 years is stunning. Just a jawbreaker from beginning to end.
Don’t Pretend
Teach Me Culture
To Love Someone
Lonely Man
One Foot Jo Jo
Now A Days
Jah Is With Me
Trying To Rule My Life
Mind You Hurt My Mom
Producer : Helena Hall & Barrington Levy
Engineer : Crucial Bunny
Backing Band : The Roots Radics
Studios :
Recording : Channel One (Kingston, JA)
Clive Field Marshall “Wha Happen to the Hostage?” (Wackies)
Here is a true gem from the Wackies crew. From the incomparable album ‘Poor House Rockers’ we have Clive Field Marshall’s “Wha Happen to the Hostage?,” Clive’s take on the 1980 Iran hostage situation where US President Jimmy Carter could do nothing to secure the release of American hostages in Iran. In steps Ronnie Reagan and the hostages come home. Big Up Clive Field Marshall for this amazing track! ‘Poor House Rockers’ is the album that originated the phrase “be careful how you drive ‘pon New Jersey turnpike,” a phrase that would be lifted by every two-bit rap artists circa 1992. A true original here…
Love Joys “All I Can Say” (Extended)
A Wackies classic no matter how you slice it, the Love Joys’ “All I Can Say” is Bullwackie at his absolute best. Atmospheric vibe, deep, thunderous bass, stupendous keys, and that “dank” Wackies basement sound all of us have come to love. Featured on their outstanding debut album ‘Lovers Rock,’ this tune is tremendous in every way…a perfect recording in my opinion. Filled with that tuff Wackies New York Shitty vibe, the song is dreada than dread, however, the cousins are hopelessly optimistic, wishing for a better world one day. The Wackies sound, and the music that characterizes it, is vastly under-rated, and basically unheard of to the average reggae fan. As I told Bullwackie recently, Wackies is my Motown.
The Love Joys were a short-lived female duo based in New York who recorded two albums for Lloyd James’ legendary Wackies label. Comprised of cousins Sonia Abel and Claudette Brown, the twosome was one of the few female reggae groups to make any sort of splash, so it’s a shame that their unique sound wasn’t recorded more. (Nowadays, Abel has teamed with her husband to form the group Natti Love Joys, based in Tennessee.)
This is the extended version of the song, which is not featured on the album. A real special treat for all the MIDNIGHT RAVER readers…
All I can say, all I can say,
All I can say, all I can say, all I can say.
I hope and pray, that this world,
Will be a better world one day.
Too much, killing to socialize, that not right my brother.
Stand on his right hand, you’re sure to be a better man.
So, all I can say,all I can say, all I can say,
This world will be a better world one day.
What is your cause, disobeying Jah law?
Distroying his kingdom, do you wanna burn?
Children will play now, grow up and go astray.
Look behind the corner, Babylon is gonna take them away.
So, all I can say, all I can say,
This world is going be a better world one day.
(..)
Too much, killing to socialize, that not like my brother.
Stand on his right hand, you’re sure to be a better man.
So, all I can say, all I can say,
This world will be a better world one day.
(..)
Children will play now, grow up and go astray.
Look behind the corner, Babylon is gonna take them away.
So, all I can say, all I can say,
This world will be a better world one day.
Yeah! A better world one day.
Yeah! A better world one day.
