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Reggae, roots, dub and more. I hope you'll enjoy it.
So far:
Lee Perry - Black Belt Jones
Herman Chin Loy - Oily
Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - No Night in Zion
Niney the Observer - You're No Dub Baby
Dadawah - Run Come Rally
Winston Williams - Sweet Like Candy
Ernest Ranglin - Surfin
Tommy McCook and the Aggrovators - A Version I Can Feel With Love
Harold Butler - Watu Wangu Wanuita
Barry Biggs and the Dragonaires - I'll Be There
Cedric Brooks - Satta Masa Ganna
Prince Jammy - Jammys A Satta
Augustus Pablo - Silent Satta
Angela Prince - You a Fool Boy
Cedric IM Brooks and the Light of Saba - Nobody's Business
Sly and the Revolutionaries with Jah Thomas - Collie
Dillinger - Flot Foot Hustling
Big Youth - The Killer
I Roy - Sidewalk Killer
Max Romeo and the Upsetters - Chase the Devil
King Tubby meets the Upsetter - Crime Wave
Wackies - Judgement Rock
Max Romeo - Words of Wisdom
Jay Tees - Come to Me
The Upsetters - My Girl
John Holt - Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
Untouchables - Knock On Wood
Delroy Wilson - Ain't That Peculiar
Brother Hood - African Freedom
Jackie Mittoo - Summer Breeze
Ken Boothe - Everything I Own
One Blood - Be Thankful for What You've Got
This is the last song. Goodnight, and thanks for listening.
As you well know, wendell, the '70s were a weird, weird decade. (Also, sometimes these reggae covers remind me that, even though I'm sick of the original after hearing it once a week on bad soft-rock/oldies radio stations for my entire life, the bland, insipid originals are also good pop songwriting.)