If you fancy a tasty chunk of Rub-a-Dub, then this post’s for you.
The ‘Lewis Brothers’ AKA ‘Fat Man Ridim Section’, rock the place.

tracks;

1 Brethren
2 President
3 Dance Hall Style
4 Wagon of Dub
5 Lick chalice
6 Rock all night
7 Sensi
8 Famming on the land

Around 1980 there was a movement going on called ‘Dub Poetry’.
There were types with colourful names like, ‘Oku Onoura’, ‘Benjamin
Zepheniah’ and ‘Muta Baruka’. One of the founders of this movement
was without any doubt, ‘Linton Kwesi Johnson’, on this here record
he was still performing under the name ‘Poet and the Roots’. ‘Dread
Beat an’ Blood’, is a poetic collection of 8 protestsongs.
An LP I played thousands of times !

tracks;

1 Dread beat an’ blood
2 Five nights of bleeding
3 Doun di road
4 Song of blood
5 It dread inna Inglan
6 Come wi goh dung deh
7 Man free
8 All wi doin is defendin

I don’t have a year on this fine reggae album, early eighties would
be my guess. With ‘Sly and Robbie’, ‘Roots Radics’ and the ‘High
Times Band’, this can’t go wrong, Produced by Prince Jammy,
Recorded at Channel One and King Tubby’s Studio.
A sweet session.

tracks;

1 Natural vibes
2 Reggae singer
3 Children crying
4 Dreadlocks time
5 Liberation song
6 Life hard a yard
7 Food for thought
8 Blood and hate
9 Rastaman
10 Cry love
11 My woman is gone
12 True true loving

3 Guys, 3 voices, Israel Vibration, these 3 singers have the
traditional habit of rotating the solopart of each song. It’s a very
nice experience to see them perform live. I was at a concert of
them at Paradiso Amsterdam some years ago, and I had
a great time, super social reggae.

tracks;

1 Give I grace
2 Friday evening
3 Mr. Taxman
4 Survive
5 Top control
6 We a de rasta
7 Unconquered people
8 Possibility
9 Dwellers of darkness
10 Practice what Jah teach

Gregory Isaacs with his golden voice appears on Vigin Records with
a great line-up, Next to Sly and Robbie we see Leroy Wallace, Santa,
Leroy Sibbles, Bo Peep, Bingy Bunny, Sticky and Skully, Gladstone Anderson,
Winston Wright, Ansil Collins, Nambo, Bobby Ellis, Deadly Headly,
Earl ‘Wire’ Lindo, Junior Delgado and Dennis Brown.

tracks;

1 Universal tribulation
2 Mr. Brown
3 Down the line
4 Lonely girl
5 Bumping and boring
6 My relationship
7 Slave market
8 Black liberation struggle
9 Jah music
10 Soon forward

Ever since I found this LP, I was a youngster, I fel in love
with it’s cover, what a gorgeous drawing by Abigail Maucotel.
And then that sound, ‘Jump Up’ is Trinidad music, the happiest sound
you’ve ever heard. This is serious Party material,
Jump UP !

tracks;

1 Riverbank Jump Up
2 Benwood Dick
3 El negrito
4 The road march
5 Jamaica Jump Up
6 Happy wanderer
7 Elaine, Harry and mama
8 Second hand piano
9 St. Thomas
10 Village ram
11 Surprise merengue
12 Laziest man

I don’t know how many times I’ve been playing this here LP.
It was one of my first reggae albums and it was on the turntable
a whole lot more then many others around that time. Jacob Miller
( like always with the Lewis brothers), Inner Circle, Fat Man
Ridim Section, many names, same group of guys. ‘Suzie
Wong, she’s my baby, and don’t think I’m crazy’, Look
at the size of these men and you understand.

tracks;

1 Don’t let money fool you
2 Suzie Wong
3 Tenement yard
4 Every day with you girl
5 Dock of the bay
6 Tired felick weed in a bush
7 Truth has come again
8 All night till daylight
9 Forward Jah Jah children
10 Why can’t we be friends
11 Roman soldiers of Babylon

This is part 4. I want to dedicate this one to my friend Poca,
she runs a little internet/TV station. ( not anymore)
a lot of Jamaican stuff there, thanks Poca for your support.

tracks;

1 Eek-a-Mouse – Neutron bomb
2 Barrington Levy – Robberman
3 Mutabaruka – Evey time I ear the soun
4 Trevor Scorcher – Chemist in a dis
5 Horace Andy – Stop the fuss
6 Maxi Priest – Sensi
7 Philip Levy – In a me yard
8 Yellowman – Sensemilla ( fade start )
9 Sugar Minott – Devil’s pickney
10 The Viceroys – Girl it’s over
11 Ini Kamoze – Mer-tel-ler
12 Peter Tosh – Legalize it
13 Little John – Nothing is impossible
14 The Techniques – I’ll never fall in love
15 Michael Rose – Archie Bella
16 Don Evans – Telling me
17 Luie Lepke – Willie Red
18 Lee van Cliff – Different fashion
19 The Rolands – Black race
20 Michael Prophet – Fight to the top
21 Jackie Opel – Push wood

Part 3 of 6, series of vinyl rips of favorite
tracks from the eighties. A funtrack here is
M.Jackson’s ‘Billy Jean’ by Shinehead, a killer.

tracks;

1 Oku Onoura – Wat a situashan
2 The Twinkle Brothers – Miss labba labba
3 Mikey Dread – Barbersaloon
4 The Itals – Brutal
5 Lacksley Castell – Leaving
6 Papa Tullo – Straight to the government
7 Shinehead – Billy Jean
8 U Roy – Chalice in the palace
9 Tapper Zukie – My god is real
10 Prince Far I – Throw away your gun
11 Israel Vibration – Universal father
12 Don Carlos – Ride on Cristine
13 Kotch – In the hills
14 Israel Vibration – Friday evening
15 Winston Jarret and the Righteous Flames – Jungle collie
16 Horace Andy – Eating mess
17 Junior Reid – Original foreign mind
18 Horace Andy – Money money
19 Israel Vibration – Highway robbery

These tracks are 7″ and 10″ singles and some songs from LP’s.
It was made in sept. ’04, 5 years later than number 1 which
is posted below.

tracks;

1 Sugar Minott – No vacancy
2 Little John – Smoke ganja hard
3 Purpleman – Rum punch fe mi lunch
4 Unknown artist – It a fe boom
5 Dean, Nambo & Madden – Sharp razor
6 Sugar Minott – Babylon
7 Sammy Dread – Rude boy
8 Sammy Dread – Talk it over
9 Don Carlos – Fight fight
10 Patrick Andy – Tired fe lick it in a bush
11 Courage – Sister in law
12 Lee van Cliff – Rock it to me twice
13 Barrington Levy – Teach me culture
14 Sugar Minott – Four wheel wheelie
15 Raymond Naptali – Automatic boom
16 Raymond Naptali – Gimme gimme sensemillia
17 Yellowman – Mr. Chin
18 Yellowman & Fathead – Bam bam
19 Johnny Ringo – Don’ know much
20 Ranking Joe – Clarks booty style