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BEVERLEY KELSO GAVE THE WAILERS THAT SOUND!
Beverley Kelso— One of the most commonly accepted inaccuracies in popular music is that there is one surviving Wailer, but that is not entirely true. The surviving Wailer often referred to is Neville O’Riley Livingstone, better known as Bunny Wailer, but Beverley Kelso, a foundation and cornerstone member, is very much alive and well, living in Brooklyn, New York. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in April 1948 and attended Miss Nembhard Prep, and later, the Denham Town … Read entire article »
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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF BOB MARLEY’S “LEGEND!”
By Kevin Jackson— The cover of Bob Marley’s album Legend.—- LEGEND, the best- selling reggae album of all time by Bob Marley and the Wailers, turns 30 this year. The greatest hits collection was originally released in May 1984 by Island Records, three years after Marley’s death from cancer at age 36. The set has been re-released on three occasions. A definitive re-mastered edition was released in 2002; it was followed by a deluxe edition that year. Last year, … Read entire article »
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BERGEN COUNTY’S JUDGE GRANTS JAWARA TOSH A ONE-WEEK FURLOUGH FOR CONCERT IN JAMAICA!
Jawara Tosh—- EXCLUSIVE: The youngest son of reggae great Peter Tosh caught a plane for Jamaica this morning, with the permission of Bergen County’s top judge, so that he could perform at a concert, among other activities, while awaiting trial in connection with 65½ pounds of pot that Mahwah police said they found in the trunk of his car last Father’s Day weekend. Jawara G. McIntosh, who has been free since posting a $200,000 cash bond in December, … Read entire article »
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REGGAE HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: REMEMBERING JOE HIGGS AND ROY WILSON!
Reggae history is black history, is my history, is rastafari history. Remembering two of Jamaica’s trench town musical greats at this 2013. Joe Higgs and Roy Wilson.. By RAS CARDO REGGAE FROM TRENCH-TOWN JAMAICA I have been telling the world and sharing much about our trench town unsung heroes for years. I have written about some of us which has made it possible for others to verify the truth in what I have told them. In 1993 I … Read entire article »
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REGGAE – THE JEWEL OF JAMAICA’S INDEPENDENCE!
By Gordon Robinson—- Since 1962, Jamaica’s Independence has shone through music. Jamaica created three original music beats. Reggae is the most famous, but before reggae came ska and rocksteady. It’s a widespread myth that ska evolved from mento. Actually, ska and all that followed came from our embryonic attempts to copy imported music to fuel 1950s sound systems’ fierce rivalry. The thirst for ‘exclusive’ popular music drove our fledgling industry. At first, records were imported and labels erased to … Read entire article »
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A COMMEMORATIVE 50 BOX-SET FROM STUDIO ONE IS SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 2013!
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL——- A box set commemorating the 50th anniversary of Studio One and the 80th birthday of the studio’s founder Clement ‘Coxson’ Dodd, is scheduled to be released in January. Clement Dodd Jnr and Morna Dodd, two of the legendary producer’s children, told the Jamaica Observer recently that a team of musicologists have already began preparing the multisong project. DODD… box set scheduled to be released in January “His contribution to Jamaican music has not been emphasised at … Read entire article »
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AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS IN THE VAULT – HISTORIC REGGAE RECORDINGS ARE BROUGHT TO LIFE!
By Janice Brown—– For the past several months, reggae producer Clive Chin and The Kennel chief engineer Billy “Prince Polo” Szeflinski have been working to digitize, catalog, embellish and mix hundreds of hours of previously unreleased recordings by some of the biggest stars of the golden age of ska and reggae. As The Kennel reports on its blog, the archive consists of hundreds of hours of reggae music recorded from 1968-1978 by Clive Chin and his father, Vincent “Randy” Chin, at the legendary Studio 17 … Read entire article »
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THE NIGHT PETER TOSH WAS MURDERED!
CRIMES THAT ROCKED THE NATION! By Sybil E Hibbert— HOW did the internationally known Jamaican icon and reggae singer, Peter Tosh — second only in fame to the legendary Bob Marley — really die? And, after the impact of his brutal murder hit the local and foreign Press, what other sensation could one have imagined the blood-thirsty killers had in mind, when they also massacred, in one sitting, well-known broadcaster and disc jockey, Jeff Dixon, o/c Free I; … Read entire article »
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THE “TRUE BEGINNINGS” OF REGGAE MUSIC
Published: Sunday | January 15, 2012 By Roy Black – ///// The name reggae has come to be accepted by many as the generic name for all Jamaican popular music since about 1960. But to those of us who lived with the music and understand the changes it went through will know that reggae is only one of several types of Jamaican music. It is different from ska, rocksteady and dancehall, and occupies a specific period which began in late 1967. Jamaican popular … Read entire article »
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