Tag: Reggae
The title track was top 10 both in the UK and in the US in 1969, making Dekker one of the most visible early stars of reggae outside…
This was required listening and a mandatory part of any healthy CD collecting heading into college in the 80s. It didn’t matter what musical subculture you came from,…
The Silvertones, Silver Bullets, 1973 on Trojan Records. My copy is a @vinylmeplease reissue from 2018. Great early 70s reggae produced by Lee “Scratch” Perry
The Abyssinians, Forward, 1982 on Alligator Records. With Sly and Robbie, Zoot Sims. Great roots/reggae record
Jimmy Cliff, The Power and the Glory, 1983 on Columbia. Mid 80s reggae from the great James Chambers OM, aka Jimmy Cliff.
UB40, Live, 1983 on DEP International. UK pressing, recorded on tour in Ireland in 1982. Love these early tunes: Burden of Shame, Tyler, One in Ten, Sardonicus. (Dont…
Peter Tosh, Legalize It, 1976 on Columbia It’s 4:20 somewhere, right? This is a later pressing, but hard to date – 80s maybe. I’ve had it at least…
UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records. Opens with “Tyler” (about Gary Tyler, sentenced to death at 17 in Louisiana, who served 41 years before being released in…