One of the great reggae songs, Tenement Yard introduced us to Jacob Miller with a bit of a doggerel singalong. (more…)

One of the all-time greats of Jamaican reggae, Burning Spear’s Slavery Days is a highlight of his landmark Marcus Garvey album.

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One of the unlikeliest hits of the Seventies was this slice of deep dub-influenced new take on an old tune by Rupie Edwards. (more…)

Not just my favourite reggae tune. Not just my favourite dub. Simply one of my favourite tunes of any genre (I can’t say ‘song’ as it’s instrumental).
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I’d had this catchy song lodged in my memory for about 40 years without remembering who or what it was until one day it popped up on a reggae compilation I’dbought. (more…)

Harmony greats The Heptones helped put Coxsone Dodd’s legendary Studio One on the map as the home of Jamaican rocksteady and reggae. (more…)

The loose ramshackle sound of this song can be attributed to one thing – they had never played it before the day they recorded it. And this was only the second take. (more…)

Alice Cooper’s second big hit seems like the perfect soundtrack for what was about to happen in the USA in November 2020. (more…)

Amazingly, this was The Sweet’s sixth straight hit single in 18 months when it reached No.4 in September 1972. But it was the first one they actually played on. (more…)

Here’s an all-star double-bill – Horace Andy singing and Tapper Zukie toasting and a nice laid-back dub as a bonus. (more…)