Here is another roots mix I put together some years back, listening to it again it holds up well. That Sacka Tulloch tune has to be one of the best unheralded roots tunes ever, it slays. All tunes mid 1970s to around 1981.

1) Leroy Brown – Money Barrier (Color Barrier LP, Makasound reissue)
2) Andell Forgie – Don’t Underpay Us (Weed Beat)
3) Sacka Tulloch – Free the Children (Fox)
4) Give Them The Lighter
5) Jah Stitch – Jail House Rock (Jusic Music)
6) Bim Sherman – Blacker Sound (Scorpio)
7) Eric Clarke – Praise the Father (Bombshell)
8) Barrington Spence – Step in Jah Jah (US Black Star)
9) Lloyd Norris – Revelation 22 (Magnum Force)
10) version
11) Paketo Wilson – Praise H.I.M. (Child of God)
12) version
13) Black Skin – Ruccumbine (Talent 77)
14) Leroy Smart – Road is Rough (Sweet City)
15) Uniques – Washing I Dread By The Riverside (Give Thanks LP, Joe Gibbs)
16) Uniques – Two Face People (Give Thanks LP, Joe Gibbs)
17) Dennis Green & the Black Liberators – Wanted Man (Danger Zone)
18) Leroy Housen & the Outer Limits – Jah Say Love (US King)
19) Junior Byles – Run Run (Observer)
20) version
21) Leonard Swaby – We Want Our Liberty (Vivian Jackson repress)
22) Bongo Gene – Skyjack (Total Sounds)
23) version

Back again with another strictly late 60s selection with a couple of tunes from the turn of the decade thrown in toward the end. The load was blown in the middle of the set with consecutive big boss tunes keeping the pressure on. All tunes from original 45s, except for the sublime Gaylads tune from their 'Soul Beat' LP for Coxsone, and the Roy Panton is from that minty repress that came out a year or two back (the original is rarer than hen's teeth). All tunes from 1966 to 1970. Dig it.

1. Ernest Ranglin – Surfin (Studio One)
2. Federals – Shocking Love (Scotty pre)
3. Gaylads – You Are Leaving Now (Soul Beat LP)
4. Ken Boothe – She’s In Love (Links pre)
5. Freddy McKay – So Long Farewell (Kismet pre)
6. Desmond Dekker – Bongo Gal (UK Pyramid)
7. Roy Panton – Endless Memory (Gayfeet repress)
8. Larry & Alvin (actually Glen & Dave) – Love Got Me (UK Coxsone)
9. John Holt – Stealing Stealing (Treasure Isle)
10. Winston Jarrett – Wreck Up a Pagan Heart (Studio One pre)
11. Jackie Mittoo – Homemade (UK Rio)
12. Gladiators – Sweet Soul Music (Treasure Isle pre)
13. Kingstonians – Put Down Your Fire (Sir JJ pre)
14. David Isaacs – Good Father (Upsetter pre)
15. Pioneers – Pee Pee Cluck Cluck (Beverleys pre)
16. Maytones – Billy Goat (GG)
17. Jamaicans – Early in the Morning (Soul pre)
18. Leaders – Won’t Let Go (Tramp pre)
19. Freedom Singers – Real Gone Loser (Coxsone)
20. John Holt – What You Gonna Do (Treasure Isle pre)
21. Viceroys (actually Versatiles?) – Jumpy Jumpy Girl (UK Amalgamated)
22. Maytals – Don’t Trouble Trouble (Beverleys pre)
23. Larry Marshall – Money Girl (UK Nu Beat)
24. Hopeton & Glen – Girl You’re Cold (WIRL pre)
25. Actions – Suckey Get A Blow (Studio One)
26. Clarendonians – He Who Laughs Last (BL pre)
27. Clancy Eccles (with Zoot Simms) – We Want to Go Back Home (Mt. Zion) (CE pre)

I'm running a bit behind with new episodes, so I decided to go with this old roots mix I put together a few years ago. It's an oldie but goodie to me, but it has aged well, I know you will enjoy. All tunes from original press 45 except the Chantells track, which comes from their great LP for the Phase One camp. Enjoy!

1. Rupie Edwards - Three Pon One A Murder (UK Cactus)
2. Rupie Edwards - Oh Black People (Success)
3. U Brown - Jamaican Tobacco (UK Fay Music)
4. Barry Heptones - Law of the Land (Morwell Esquire)
5. Naggo Morris - Here I Come (Clappers)
6. Frederick Thomas - Down in A Babylon (S.E.L.D.O.M.)
7. Errol Dunkley - Stop Your Gun Shooting (Stars)
8. version
9. Regals - Good to Be There (Sound Unlimited)
10. Henley Banton - Nah Give Up (Micron)
11. Clint & the Vickers - Free Jah Children (Streamline)
12. Claudius Linton - Hail A Man (Lion)
13. Patrick Alley - Come We Go Reason (Top Record)
14. Freddy McKay - Cool Down Your Temper (Marsha Music)
15. version
16. Vin Gordon - Jungle Rock (Ripe)
17. Wayne Jarrett - Satta Dread (Barbell)
18. version
19. Prince Alla - Nah Go A Funeral (Joe Gibbs)
20. Chantells - Effort In Yourself (Waiting in the Park LP, Phase One)
21. Smith & the Prophets - Valley of Jehosaphatt (Prophets)
22. Champions - We A Suffer (Ja Man)
23. The Uprising - Nice Time (Orbit)
24. Lloyd Lawrence - Let Them Come (Sparkles)
25. version

I decided to go with a different kind of selection this time, a spotlight on that hyper-creative period in the early 1970s when Jamaican music was experimental, sometimes odd, and always intriguing. Not all the resulting music from this period was top drawer, but this selection goes for some of the peaks. Solo singers and harmony groups are represented by mighty names such as Burning Spear and Dennis Brown, down to less heralded artists such as Kebble Drummond (of the Cables) and Nora Dean. Some rare early DJ shots are also represented, from obscure artists such as King Smiley, Trevor Clarke and Winston Palmer, in addition to mic legends like U and I Roy. All tunes between 1970 and 1974(ish). Dig it!

1. Winston Palmer & Familyman – Mafia Skank (Godfather)
2. Gregory Isaacs – Closer Together (Success pre)
3. Tommy McCook – Sidewalk Doctor (SRS)
4. Nora Dean – Angie La La (Treasure Isle)
5. John Holt – My Heart is Gone (Sunshot)
6. Immortals – Why Keep A Good Man Down (Mellotone)
7. Dennis Alcapone & Audley Rollens – You A Come (Rebind pre)
8. I Roy – Trouble Man (Hell & Sorrow LP)
9. Ken Boothe – Make Me Feel Alright (Advance)
10. Gregory Isaacs – One One Cocoa (Dwyer)
11. Wailing Souls – Stick Together (Coxsone)
12. Burning Spear – This Race (Rocking Time LP, Forward)
13. Burning Spear – Them A Come (Presenting LP, Coxsone)
14. Dennis Brown – In Their Own Way (African Museum pre)
15. Al Campbell – Rasta Time (Sounds United pre)
16. Joe Higgs – Wave of War (Harry J)
17. Kebble Drummond – Dangerous (Mod)
18. Dennis Brown – Black Magic Woman (Sunshot)
19. Cliff Stewart – Burn Collie (Bongo Man pre)
20. Trevor Clarke – First Attack (? pre)
21. Wailers – Run For Cover (Power Label pre)
22. Stingers – Preacher Man (UK Upsetter)
23. U Roy – On Top of the Peak (UK Grape)
24. King Smiley – Tippertone & Tubby Clash (Shock pre)
25. Itals – African Plane (Success pre)
26. Keith Hudson – I Thought You Knew (UK Smash)
27. Errol Dunkley – You’ll Never Know (Gayfeet)
28. Eternals – Heading for the Mountain (Music House)

Back again with another mostly late 60s selection. I went for some big tunes this time, happy to get these in one selection ... this is good listening. Even finally worked in the tune from which this podcast takes its name. Enjoy!

1. Soul Brothers – Voodoo Moon (Muzik City pre)
2. Theophilus Beckford – Easy Snapping (New Beat pre)
3. Justin Hinds & the Dominoes – You Should Have Known Better (Treasure Isle)
4. Brentford All Stars – Soul Shake (Supreme)
5. Eternals – Queen of the Minstrels (Supreme pre)
6. Bob Andy – The Way I Feel (Success pre)
7. Logan Tomlinson – I Stand For I (Coxsone)
8. Leroy Sibbles & the Heptones – Sweet Talking (Coxsone pre)
9. Wailers – Soul Shake Down Party (Beverley’s pre)
10. West Indians – Falling In Love (UK Doctor Bird)
11. Bobby Ellis & Desmond Miles Seven – Step Softly (Crystal)
12. Lloyd & Glen – That Girl (Crystal)
13. Ike Bennett & the Crystalites – James Ray (Crystal pre)
14. Lester Sterling & Vin Gordon – African Beat (Coxsone pre)
15. Harmonians – Believe Me (Spade pre)
16. Brent Dowe & the Melodians – Heartaches (Gayfeet pre)
17. Eric Monty Morris – Say What You’re Saying (New Beat)
18. Roy Shirley – Million Dollar Baby (Lee’s pre)
19. Heptones – Young Generation (Coxsone pre)
20. Barry Llewelyn – Sad Song (Coxsone pre)
21. Carl Dawkins – Hot & Sticky (UK Rio)
22. Joe Gibbs All Stars – I Spy (Amalgamated pre)
23. Dandy – Have Your Fun (UK Giant)
24. Desmond Dekker – Hanging Tree (Beverley’s pre)
25. Jamaican Shadows – Have Mercy (UK Coxsone)
26. Keith & Tex – Tonight (Rusty Dusty)
27. Val Bennett – Russians Are Coming (Lee’s)

Back with another roots selection, plenty of rough rarities and evergreen hits. All original press 45s here, except for the Johnny Clarke tune which was supposedly never released on 45...this is a late 90s reissue of a mid 70s duplate, briefly reissued and now out of print.

My apologies for the vocal distortion on the Michael Rose and Invaders tunes, but to my knowledge all copies of these songs are less than stellar. I've heard a few other copies of the Invaders tune and the high treble mastering is poor on all copies (please let me know if you have a clean copy!) As for the Rose tune, well he's just too close to the microphone when he hits those big notes. These are just two more examples of the rough edges surrounding the reggae world of yesteryear. To me, it's charming.

1. Gregory Isaacs - Beautiful Africa (Micron)
2. version
3. Delroy Williams - Let's Be People (Tomorrow)
4. Creole - I Don't Know (Village)
5. Clarke & Forrester - Jah Fire (Clarke & Forrester)
6. Invaders - Love Peace & Togetherness (Invaders)
7. Linval Thompson - Natty Dread A Pressure Them (Rockers)
8. Horace Andy - Ain't No Sunshine (Earthquake)
9. Johnny Clarke - Can't Stop Me Now (Thompson Sound re)
10. Hugh Mundell - Run Come In A De Dance (Muni Music)
11. Tappa Zukie - Liberation Struggle (UK Achilles)
12. Michael Rose - Running Around (Key)
13. Dillinger - Blessed Savior (Big Phil)
14. Charlie Morrison - Selassie Memorial (Vivian Jackson)
15. Junior Ross & the Spear - Jah Love (New Star)
16. Joy White - Dread Out De (Eagle)
17. Dennis Brown - Whip Them Jah (Earthquake)
18. Glenmore Brown - Mitchville Rock (Slang)
19. Pat Francis - Guys Get A Blow (Overdue)
20. African Youth - Forward Down A Channel One (Over)
21. version
22. Honey Vaughn - This Tribulation (Rhythm Sound)
23. Sylvester Morgan - Ruler of Mankind (Fox)
24. Swine
25. Bobby Kalphat - Liberation Front (Black & White)
26. Prince Alla - Their Reward (Dalphin)
27. version

Hello once again, music lovers of the universe. I'm back with another roots selection for your continuous reggae enjoyment. All tunes from original vinyl, selection spanning about 1974 to 1979. Don't refuse it.

1. Gabriel & the Angel - Dread In A Earth (Golden Air)
2. Palmer Brothers - Step It Out A Babylon (Sweet City)
3. King Tubby's - Norman Dub (Prophets)
4. R. Man Prince - Everyone Has Got To Go (Snowball Records)
5. version
6. Black Notes - Natural Man (Hills)
7. version
8. Quarter Notes - Drifting (Quarter Notes)
9. Garwood Brothers - Give An Helping Hand (Micron)
10. Sam Bramwell - Ruling Time (Wait A Bit)
11. version
12. Well Pleased & Satisfied - Open The Gate Bobby Boy (Total Sounds 12")
13. Heptones - Mr. President (Hep Hep)
14. Garth Dennis - Slow Coach (Sydna)
15. Lee Perry? - Nuh Fe Run It Down (Heart Of The Ark LP, Seven Leaves)
16. Mystic I - Forward With Love (Heart Of The Ark LP, Seven Leaves)
17. Al Moodie - Children Get Ready (Black Ram)
18. version
19. King Tubby's - A Bussy Version (Track United)
20. Johnny Clarke - Every Knee Shall Bow (G-Clef)
21. version
22. Heptones - You Want To Get I Out (Yah Congo 12")

Kinda going out of turn here with another rocksteady/early reggae selection, and I'm well pleased with this one. Tunes are from 1966-1973.

Everything once again off original press, except for the Heptones tune from the superb "Sea of Love" compilation (which has been killing me lately) and the unheralded Bennett & Davis rocksteady cut from Trojan's out-of-print "Musical Fever" release. A few tunes for the collectors, as well...don't actually know that Trap Man is in fact by the Invaders, but that's what is written on the label, so I'm going with that. Also, I'm not totally convinced that the title of the Eagles tune here is correct, but that's what the matrix is listed as. Again, I'm going with it but let me know if you know better. While we're at it, is it really Little Roy on track 4? I've also seen it credited to the Emeralds. Enough trainspotting for now...enjoy!

1. Lord Salmons – Great Great in 68 (UK Amalgamated)
2. Prince Buster – Taxation (UK Fab)
3. Versatiles – Worried A Yard (UK Crab)
4. Little Roy – Stony Hill (Matador pre)
5. Hortense Ellis – Woman of the Ghetto (US Hot Shot)
6. Cornell Campbell – You’re No Good (Success pre)
7. Invaders? – Trap Man (? pre)
8. Bobby Kalphat – Blacker Black (Soul Sounds pre)
9. Tartans – Far Beyond the Sun (Treasure Isle pre)
10. Maytals – Just Tell Me (Beverleys pre)
11. Scorchers – Things & Time (Matador)
12. Eagles – Rudam Bam (Jupiter pre)
13. Royals (as Show Boy) – Mix It Up Girl (Capri pre)
14. Mellotones – Banana Water (Beverleys pre)
15. Pioneers – Me Naw Go A Bellview (Amalgamated pre)
16. Slickers – Man Beware (Pressure Beat)
17. Winston & George – Denham Town (UK Pyramid)
18. Rio Grandes – Soldier Take Over (Beverleys)
19. Clarendonians – Lonely Heartaches (UK Crab)
20. Heptones – Stick Man (Sea of Love CD, Heartbeat)
21. Bennett & Davis – Puppy Love (Musical Fever LP, Trojan reissue)
22. Ken Boothe – There You Go With A Broken Heart (Coxsone pre)
23. Alton Ellis – Knocking At Your Door (Coxsone)
24. Boston Jack & the Soulites – Starvation (Gemini pre)

Back again, this time with another selection of mostly late 1960s tunes, all from original Jamaican 45s (except for the Brother Dan tune, which is a UK issue). The tracks range from 1967 to 1972, with some common tunes (for good reason) and a few for the collectors.

Lots more where this came from, will try to drop a new session about every three to four weeks. Enjoy!

1. Jackie Mittoo – Our Thing (Coxsone pre)
2. Earl Bailey – Moon Rock (Inbidimits)
3. Brother Dan All Stars – Eastern Organ (UK Trojan)
4. Arthur Robinson – Moments (Studio One)
5. Horace Andy – New Broom (Studio One pre)
6. Derrick Morgan – Fat Man (false start) (Tiger pre)
7. Clarendonians – Message to Mary (KW pre)
8. David Isaacs – Time Marches On (Upset pre)
9. Bruce Bennett – Who to Tell (Upsetter pre)
10. Race Fans – Bookie Man (Upset pre)
11. Derrick Morgan & George Dekker – Me Naw Give Up (Beverley’s pre)
12. Overtakers – That’s the Way You Like It (Amalgamated pre)
13. West Indians – Hokey Pokey (JJ)
14. C. Marshall – I Need Your Loving (Coxsone pre)
15. Cables – So Long (Studio One)
16. Austin Faithful – Why I’m Losing You (Amalgamated pre)
17. Karl Bryan – Red Ash (Treasure Isle)
18. Patsy – Give Me A Chance (Gayfeet pre)
19. Lloyd Randolph – It Ain’t (? pre)
20. Little Roy – Righteous Man (Mistic)
21. Webber Sisters – What You Gonna Do About It (Olympic)
22. Heptones – Hands of the Lord (Coxsone pre)

All selections on this one mid to late '70s, all from 45s. Enjoy!

1. Reggae George – Trodding Along (Observers)
2. Burning Spear – Traveling (Spear)
3. Jah Lloyd – Trod Along (Teem)
4. Flaming Arrow – Where Can I Lay My Weary Head (Sunshot)
5. Ferris Oliphant – Here Am I (Peace Maker)
6. Al Campbell – Can’t Get No Peace (Sunshot)
7. Lenroy Muffat – What It Takes (Discovery)
8. Uprising Maytone – Unchangeable Love (Rocking Time)
9. Peter & Paul Lewis – Ethiopian Land (Black Art)
10. Joe Axumite – No Equal Rights In Babylon (City Line)
11. version
12. Paul Sinclair – Give A Helping Hand (Demon)
13. version
14. Horace Andy – Them Never Tell I (Observer 12”)
15. Lebert Bennett – Rough Life (Phase One)
16. version
17. Truth Fact & Correct – Babylon Deh Pon Fire (Upsetter)
18. I Roy – Dread Dread Collie (Humbres)
19. Earth Disciples – Peace Love & Harmony (56 Hope Road)
20. Leroy Smart – Zion (Andinet)
21. Paul Hurlock – Someone Cut It Down (Gorgon)
22. Max Romeo – Something is Wrong With the Nation (Romax)
23. Jackie Mittoo – Sin City (Romax)

For my first podcast, I present 24 tracks from 12 different artists, two tunes per artist, coming back-to-back. I've stretched the concept just a bit with the Drumbago tunes, but I know you forgive me. Tunes range from '66 to '71, strictly original 45s except for "This Feeling of Love" by Alton Ellis, which was lifted from his seminal 'Best Of' LP on Studio One.

1. Roy Shirley – Golden Festival (UK Fab)
2. Roy Shirley – The Prophet (Fire)
3. Zoot Simms – Take It Cool (Coxsone pre)
4. Zoot Simms – See Dem A Come (UK Studio One)
5. Prince Buster – Rasta Book Your Passage (Prince Buster pre)
6. Prince Buster – Shaking Up Orange Street (Olive Blossom)
7. Tennors – Grandpa (Tennors pre)
8. Tennors – The Stage (Tennors pre)
9. Lee Perry – You Crummy (Upsetter pre)
10. Lee Perry & Sensations – Wind Up Doll (WIRL pre)
11. Alton Ellis – Tonight Tonight (CB pre)
12. Alton Ellis – This Feeling of Love (Best of LP, Coxsone)
13. Ethiopians – Praise For I (Gayfeet pre)
14. Ethiopians – Not Me (Upsetter pre)
15. Viceroys – Promises (Matador pre)
16. Viceroys – Jump In the Fire (I’m Righteous) (Matador pre)
17. Drumbago & Dynamites – Dulcimenia (Clandisc pre)
18. Dynamites – Tribute to Drumbago (New Beat pre)
19. Winston Jarrett – Ease Up Officer (Treasure Isle pre)
20. Winston Jarrett – You Have Lost Your Date (UK Nu Beat)
21. Stranger Cole – If We Should Ever Meet (UK Unity)
22. Stranger Cole – Crying Every Night (Baron's)
23. Freddie McLean – Fine Fine Fine (Beverleys pre)
24. Freddy McKay – Too Much Fire (UK Moodisc)