During the entire feverish national walking Zombie nightmare that was Kavanaugh’s inevitable Supreme Court nomination, I heard one phrophetic song on loop. I heard Wu Tang Clan’s ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ Cash does rule everything around me. The Billionaires have the money. Dollar dollar bill yall. The Confirmation was over before it started. The votes were already counted …
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Donald Trump proved that in America, if you have enough money and absolutely no decency, there is no Rock Bottom. Mark Zuckerberg reflects that as well. Real decency is not just about four letter words and nip slips. It more about tearing your country apart for what amounts to loose change in a vast social …
Check out my latest recording session for West Indian Rock. This my first attempt at nailing vocals for my collaboration with Jamaican Mento musicians in Port Antonio. This song came to me when I was in Mantis Gardens in Arlington pulling giant fan leaves of marijuana plants that loomed above me. I had returned from my first …
Studio time with Mell Dettmer includes a history lesson on the richest man in history, Mansu Musa of Mali. His wealth in today’s dollars was like…47 Trillion? His road trip to Mecca was inconceivable. Malian history is rich man. I am not going to disregard Dead White Men. Many did fine work. But there is a much …
Last night I heard the rough mix of the Mento song I wrote, and then recorded with Joseph Whitmore and members of the current Jolly Boys line up. The Jolly Boys are the original kings of Mento, legendary in small part among many because their biggest fan Errol Flynn gave them that name. The song, ‘Go Tell …
You are paying rent for your own body, to experience indifference… – DMS Correct me if I am wrong but back in the Reagan era, when people shouted at homeless people to get a job, what that person was truly saying was that they should get an entry level position and pay rent. But many …
I have a lot of nice things to say about the latest remake of A Star is Born. I can be a critic as well. But Bradley Cooper still has a better voice than Kristofferson. Kris is actually a terrible singer and a brilliant songwriter that makes Lou Reed sound like Otis Redding. But this …
I had ‘Free Your Mind’ removed from Spotify and all the digital stores, because a label you know is going re-release and distribute the song worldwide. ‘Free Your Mind’ will always be a Sick Donkey Records release much like this unsaid label was connected with Island Records. I say too much. But when I sign this paper …
A dear friend of mine made a heart felt post asking what he could do to be a better ally to women after Kavanaugh became a lock as Supreme Court justice today. It’s an important question, but so is this f☆cking question, …Because I want to be an ally, but a majority of White Women …
This is what happens when you don’t vote. This is what happens when you say both candidates are the exact same. You lose THE SUPREME COURT. For most probably the rest of your lives. Oh you thought you won Gay marriage and the fight about those bathrooms. You just lost abortion. …and you are as …
This is me as a manchild in 1994-1995. I am starting to look like him again. This kid was trying to dunk. He was damn close. ‘Free Your Mind‘ is heading up the charts again starting this weekend in the Caribbean thanks to the Godfathers. One thing music taught me was patience. The other thing …
Right now I am writing a song with Mykal Rose from Black Uruhu. Well to be more specific I am driving up to Bellingham as I listen to a track Reggae Powerhouse Band sent me called ‘Freedom’ that the band produced with the intention of matching me up with the first of a number of greats. The …
So yeah…I am joining a band in Kingston, Jamaica called Reggae Powerhouse Band. They wanted to add a lead singer that could write, front a band like Mick Jagger, and just flip the script a bit. They asked me to shoot a phone video to announce to share, so here you go. They want me to …
☆ Last week the church I grew up in shut down forever because not enough people go anymore. There were no more kids, they couldn’t cover the mortgage. They did vote to welcome gays and allow Women to be Pastors, so they did go out with class man. Lord knows they tried. ☆ I sang …
I didn’t want to do it, but I had to do it. The call is coming for me to go back to Jamaica to play some actual shows. I needed a better phone. The second trip I was balling on such a tight budget I had to bring this entry level Samsung, after rocking an …
Dinner with folks in Mays Pond. Read a few tales from this book, before this night cap of sweet port that tastes like Communion, and an episode of The Crown at present. The Scandinavians sure had a strange obsession with evil trolls murdering you on Christmas Eve. Christmas was their Halloween in terms of being …
Would 53% of White women still vote for Trump after the Kavanaugh hearings? I am afraid to know the answer. Why? Because 53% of White women voted for Trump after hearing the Pussy grabbing tape and learning much worse. I can pretend like the Christian conservative women who sat next to me on all these …
Next Wednesday I am driving due North to Hambone Wilson‘s farm to start preproduction on my song ‘Winston’ that I wrote furiously on a break in the wake of The Neo Nazis marching on Charlottesville. Hambone has a pretty incredible vision of casting the song in light evoking the great Anti-Fascists, Pink Floyd. Roger Waters not …
This 600 second break song came to me as we were wrapping up last night listening to Simon & Garfunkel LIVE 1969. I hear as Latin in that Incan way that Paul used those indigenous sounding flutes on ‘Duncan’ and another greatest hit I can’t think of right now. I am going change the hook …
It happened. Our very own genuine American buffoon stood before the world’s leaders doing his same routine that our American village idiots and quasi Christians eat up like old tainted seafood at a mid western buffet. And the leaders of the world just laughed. As they should. It’s comedy. The joke is on us. When …
I finally got Barbara J Mitchell all the important links to help me with some PR for ‘Free Your Mind’. I am one of those artists that has never had a push from KEXP. I have a gift of gab and words come easy to me, but I can’t really explain how much it would mean right now …
☆ Happy birthday to Eric Struthers. He’s one of New Orleans’ own livin’ and breathin’ true as blue guitar greats. If don’t catch him with Dr. John or playing with one of the Nevilles, you might want to catch him Nov 3rd at The SeaMonster Lounge. He’s flying up to play with The Staxx Brothers and few other artists …
This is pretty much what it’s like recording in Kingston. If I get to cut an album with Reggae Powerhouse Band it’s going to be WILDFIRE. I got bucket of hooks, songs, ideas for a Jamaican album that could be a really hot mix of what Jamaican session musicians are gonna do, and what I am gonna …
I finally get to tell you that Band in Seattle is switching to KING 5! I had to keep that under wraps for a while. This is so big for that show. An NBC affiliate. Conrad Denke has put his heart and soul into that show, and working with him has been one of the experiences of my career in …
I had to go the top of Snoqualmie Pass to meet up with the TV drama legend Jim Charleston to discuss shooting my video for ‘Casino Road’ before I head back to Jamaica. Jim believes in me as much as anybody, save my Viking father Bruce. He said “get 2 g’s and we’ll make my last great …
What do you think about this sneak peak at my latest song out of Jamaica? I took this back to MY Roots. I have yet to try to sound Jamaican. I don’t see the point. I just have common influences. I feel the African diaspora in my blood. Even if my DNA didn’t come up …
I wonder how the people working full time living in tents feel about our amazing American economy. We should ask them.As well as questions such as, “are you optimistic that in 2019 you will progress financially to living in a car?” Socialism is the oil in the engine of Capitalism. You can deny it, but …
Going back to that magic place Thursday. I am recording with Mell Dettmer. She captured and crafted some of my greatest vocal performances, particularly in the last year or so. Listen to the vocals on ‘Jack The Ripper’, my Dennis Brown cover of ‘How Could I Leave’, ‘I Don’t Want to Leave’, ‘Free Your Mind’, …
This Thursday, I am recording on a Sly & Robbie Riddim for the Reggae Powerhouse Band‘s debut album. I gotta do what I do, because I hear this riddim the way I hear it: Listen Mamacita, You can call me papi Second coming of Daniel Santos, embodies The Rebel spirit, my blood is Taino a loyal …
Of course the walls are closing in on Trump. He is incapable of thinking 3 steps ahead. He is just reacting. He’s a rich idiot. He’s 3 steps behind and all of his enablers and water (gate) boys are flipping on him. Because Trump is a low budget criminal Billionaire. Lawyer from the worst law …