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April 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Reggae Angels – with Sly & Robbie: Remember Our Creator
Reggae Angels – with Sly & Robbie Remember Our Creator Kings Music International / Zojak World Wide The Reggae Angels are a Bay Area reggae group specialising in conscious roots reggae with political and religious messages married to the upbeat good-vibe styled uplifting grooves of radio-ready reggae. Soft in style, intentionally. It’s an easy blend […]Archive
March 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 251: Mere Boynton
Welcome back for another week and another new guest, this is episode 251 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys and thanks to you readers and listeners. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can get to […]Archive
February 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: For The Love Of You
Various Artists: For The Love Of You Athens of the North The Athens of the North reissue label always takes you down a new wormhole, finds the sweet spot, opens the door, mixes the metaphor and spins your head with its lush simplicity; its super cool, super sweet ideas. So try this one! A compilation […]Archive
November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 17
Dave Barker Meets The Upsetters, Prisoner of Love (1970) Bit of an impulse buy, this one. And very happy to have made it. Dave Barker is something of a journeyman reggae/rocksteady/soul singer – but back when this record was made he wasn’t really anyone. This record made him. And I bought it because it was […]Archive
November 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 18
Toots & The Maytals, Knock Out! (1981) The song Beautiful Womanwas everywhere when I was a kid. I remember it well. I didn’t particularly like it. Nor did I know who it was by. It was just everywhere. It was years – and possibly even a few more years after that – before I found […]Archive
July 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 90
Easy Star All-Stars, Radiodread (2006) I first became aware of the Easy Star All-Stars with their first album – Dub Side of The Moon. It is a brilliant set of covers (reimaginings) of that classic album. Performed in order. These days I get way more of a kick out of listening to that than I […]Archive
July 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 100
Bob Marley and The Wailers, Live: Boston Music Hall (June 8th 1978) (2017) Look, I’m not really one for these bootleg recordings – but I am one for bargains. So when I found a brand new copy of this, for dirt cheap, with time to kill and browsing, there was no choice but for it […]Archive
June 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 113
Arthur “Duke” Reid, Treasure Dub (Vol. 1 Dub Series) (2018) Arthur “Duke” Reid was one of dub-reggae’s pioneers – running sound systems, record labels, DJing, talent spotting, promoting…and, having helped to create rocksteady, ska and early reggae music through the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the pioneers of dub music in the early/mid […]Archive
May 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 116
Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me (1986) I first learned about Boris Gardiner due to a random library-find, back in those busy toddler-caring days of finding some salvation by digging in the library’s music section. The album, Every Nigger Is A Star, a soundtrack album to a banned movie was the one. A fantastic album. Gardiner […]Archive
May 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 117
Ken Boothe, Everything I Own (1974) Ken Boothe is a sort of journeyman Jamaican vocalist – made over in the early 1970s to sing some Johnny Nash-styled pop-reggae vibes. I like the best of his work a great deal, fantastic cover versions and he wrote a few tunes too. He has great musicians in support […]Archive
May 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman