Before the shooting of this photosession, U-Roy stuffed his ‘chalice’
with some Lambsbread Collie. Eric Tello shot some great pics here,
don’t you think ?, Love this cover. Recorded at Joe Gibbs’ and
backed by The Soul Syndicate and Skin, Flesh & Bones Band,
this is a fantastic reggae album,
better check it.

tracks;

1 Runaway girl
2 Chalice in the palace
3 I can’t love another
4 Dread locks dread
5 The great psalms
6 Natty don’t fear
7 African message
8 Silver bird
9 Listen to the teacher
10 Trench town rock

Originally released in 1982, this is a re-release.
Very nice album with Wayne Jarrett sounding very much like Horace Andy.
Dub heroe Adrian Sherwood must have listened to this ‘version’material too.

tracks;

1 Brimstone & fire
2 Every tongue shall tell
3 Magic in the air
4 Bubble up
5 Darling your eyes
6 Holy mount Zion

Now here’s one of my alltime Jamaican heroes, “Tappa Zukie”.
His records shook me when I first heard them early 80’s.
And then he came to ‘Paradiso’, Amsterdam, me and my friends went
totally nuts that night.
The forthflowing bass, and Tappa’s sweet voice, I still LOVE this.
Sorry about the quality, some cracking appears.

tracks;

1 A chapter a day
2 M.P.L.A.
3 What about the half
4 Chalice to chalice
5 Peace and love
6 Pick up the rocker
7 Rocker
8 Trebelation
9 Down and touch
10 Punch in piiate

I bought this LP early 80’s and played it a hell of a lot.
Especially nice is the bright yellow coloured vinyl that it’s
pressed in. A personal old time favorite.

tracks;

1 Automatic boom
2 Gimme gimme sensemillia
3 Loving feeling
4 Don’t cry
5 Born and grow ina dis
6 Tek you hand offa me
7 Yu too su-su-su-su
8 Me no copy
9 It’s you I’m talking to
10 Trouble possee

This ‘best of’ is not a ‘best of’ as I see it. It sounds more like a
one-session recording then like a collector. Tracks 2 and 3 are
written by ‘Alton Ellis’ if I’m not mistaking. Backed by ‘the
Revolutionairies’, ‘Gregory Isaacs’, with his voice
like sugar and glue, comes in with a great LP.
Recorded at Channel One Studio.
I like this one extremely much !

tracks;

1 Special guest
2 Willow tree
3 Breaking up
4 Double attack
5 My number one
6 No speech
7 Tear drops
8 Cool you
9 Freedom
10 Look before you leap

What we have here is a very special post. Requested by Justin
Thyme, this is ‘Hugh Mundell’. Hugh was murdered at 21 years
old, sitting in a car with ‘Junior Reid’, another great talent. His
album ‘ Africa must be free by 1983’ was a tremendous hit, the
cruel thing is that this was the year, he got shot. From 1983 this
is ‘Blackman’s Foundation’, a 4 star rated album by ‘All Music
Guide’, being one of Hugh’s latest recordings. As I was told by
the salesman who sold it to me, his latest was this rare 12″ single,
‘ Hey Good Looking’, that I added as Bonustrack.
Hope you enjoy this,

tracks;

1 Blackman’s foundation
2 Great tribulation
3 Time has come
4 Stop ’em Jah
5 Time and place
6 Don’t stay away
7 Can’t pop no style
8 Rastafari’s call
9 One Jah, one aim, one destiny
BONUSTRACK;
10 Hey good looking

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