This is a powerful tune. Tia P. is Lit AF. She is Woke AF. She’s not kidding around AF, and neither am I. Give this song a listen. With clarity and resolve, the message is clear, “Revolution” is for the NOW, where matters such as race inequality, police brutality, sexual abuse against women and children …
Month: February 2018
Drones of Jamaica: This is my first music video with drones. We actually had to move down the road from our ideal location because the drone’s wifi was disabled being closer to an airport than we realized. Mario, pictured on the left mentioned that they once didn’t realize they were flying too close to the …
My Jamaican number is 876.498.4012. Let’s see if I can keep this number till I return, given the rat maze it takes to keep your number from returning to the Great Digital Spirit in the corporate sky. If I go online once a month and purchase 100 Jamaican dollars of credit every month, my number …
Tonight I entered the Lair of The Cowboy. I promised folks like Lee Gillette that I would find the heart of Country music in Jamaica. As fate would have it, a new friend of mine wanted me to meet The Cowboy, Kingston’s very own Country singer. It’s pronounced Coe Boy, like Seattle guitarist Andy Coe. …
Want to join me behind the scenes on a BBC TV program? Today I met BBC presenter David Rodigan and Beanie Man, as Anthony Red Rose introduced me and the news of our ‘Free Your Mind’ to the Big Yard. I also got to see a stripped down and poignant performance from a deserved darling …
This video is Earl Chinna Smith and his Nyabinghi Orchestra playing to the sunrise for their dear friend Bob Marley at his birthplace in a remote Jamaican village called Nine Mile, on February 6, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of Marley’s birth. It’s surreal that I am friends with these folks. Mr. Oliver Simms channels the …
I had so much fun in the studio with Owen Bassie, Wrong Turn, and Kirk Bennette. Yes one of the top keyboardists in Jamaica is named Wrong Turn. He got his knickname from King Tubby. But the first time I met Wrong Turn, it was when I first slipped into a Sly Dunbar session last …
With lilt-echoes of Kate Bush at the upper register — and more than enough grandeur-crescendo for a chick-flick credits theme — Stefanie Black’s new single, “Winter Of My Soul” is pleasant, yet pedestrian fare. On lyrical and arrangement levels, a good, but uninspired tune. However, the 19-year-old singing sensation’s powerful pipes are the sort that …
I am trying to upload the greatest video clip from Nine Mile. But how about me hanging out with Prince Allah right now? We are having a nice long chat, but I had two minutes left on my phone. Legends everywhere. You wake up and legends chillin’. Time to level up. Owen Baddie liked my …
I have a good story about my first radio interview with Anthony Red Rose. We were at KLAS Sports Radio in Kingston with DeeJay Cat. I was still pretty exhausted from the trip to Nine Mile and I had a lot weighing on my mind at that moment, but I had to bring that A game. I have …
I have a good story about my first radio interview with Anthony Red Rose. We were at KLAS Sports Radio in Kingston with DeeJay Cat. I was still pretty exhausted from the trip to Nine Mile and I had a lot of weighing on my mind at that moment, but I had to bring that A game. I …
Rode to Nine Mile on a bus full of Bob’s old friends. Ska era Wailers blasting. The sky was still black. Once I get on Wi-Fi, I have some pretty incredible video to show you from the sun rising and drums and voices raging at Nine Mile. Lenni I-Music and I had to be at Chinna’s …
I have so much to tell you about Trench Town. Let me just start by telling you I showed the kids of 3rd street my songs and they were singing along to the hooks and improvising guitar solos I challenges them to take one out for a rip. And it was actually a really nice …
The month of February always brings the much looked forward to Toasters to Seattle. After some stellar openers, the band came on stage and the horn section (Gilbert Covarrubius on trombone and Nate Koch on sax) immediately riled up the packed house by thrusting their fists in the air and getting them to copy the …
I have so much to tell you about Trench Town. Let me just start by telling you I showed the kids of 3rd street my songs and they were singing along to the hooks and improvising guitar solos I challenges them to take one out for a rip. And it was actually a really nice …
The Philadelphia Eagles finally have a Lombardi Trophy to bring home, their first championship since Concrete Charlie Bednarik sat on Green Bay’s Jim Taylor to win it all in 1960. Hats off to them. They played unafraid, especially Nick Foles, and it took all of their successful gambles to beat the Patriots. Their only mistake …
Only a Trump Presidency could create a political environment where MoveOn.org and leftist street demonstrators will rally to defend a former head of the FBI and a Republican. Please pause and just meditate for a moment how f_cking insane Trump has made our everyday reality. Because I am a huge fan of Robert Mueller and …
In these four high-profile cases, adults covered up sexual crimes. The Catholic Church moved priests. The Boy Scouts kept their Perversion Papers secret. Penn State preferred profits over boys. As the gymnastics’ story has already unfolded at Molestation State University against female gymnasts, there will be an expansion to female co-eds, making the travesty more …
I am playing on Roots FM and getting interviewed… Things you learn live on the air. Selecta (Ras Isachar) introduces me to Kingston as a friend of Jamaica and the left handed guitar player then plays “No Woman No Cry.” Is this the real life? This just happened: I just played 3 songs live on …
Confession: my plan is to be a local musician, all over the world. It seems pretty obvious but it is a major shift. One of the positives of the internet among many disastrous developments is that I can be a positive grass roots influence on scenes and people in great music towns like Brighton and …
I am not well informed about the Crime Wave that has descended upon Montego Bay as of late. An enigmatic and controversial figure in this struggle to keep Mo Bay open for business and safe for tourists is the retired Crime Fighter Reneto Adams He is a Wild West type figure that created the perception …
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