This is Part Three of our Essential Reggae Collection, to check out Part One please follow this link: Welcome to The Essential Reggae Collection, an exclusive Sweet Rare Reggae Music Compilation Series. This series will showcase some more familiar artists in Reggae music and offer a brief but essential overview of material and information to serve as a gateway for further exploration. Introduction: As most visitors to this site would expect our blog showcases rare, hard-to-find or out-of-print recordings but we have a lot of visitors who are relatively new or inexperienced in the variety and range of music which is filed under the genre of Reggae. It's really to those explorers that these compilations are aimed. Each 'Essential' album posted here will act as a starting point for newcomers to check out material and if they like what they hear we will offer links to further listening and recommended albums to help build their own Reggae collection. We will focus on the biggest names such as Bob Marley And The Wailers, Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Ken Boothe and many others, before moving on to names that might not be as instantly recognizable to those who are just starting out on their Reggae adventure.

We will also cover the many sub-genres of Reggae music including Ska, Rocksteady, Rockers, Dub, Dancehall, Ragga, 2-Tone, Lover's Rock and everything in between. We hope that these little 1-CD sized compilations will entice people into digging deeper and developing a true love for this rich and historic genre which seems to get so little worldwide exposure. Enjoy!:-) Guns Of Navarone - The Essential Skatalites The Skatalites are a legendary group of Jamaican session musicians who have been pioneers of Ska music ever since it's creation in the early 1960's.

You could help yourself decide about dub by visiting http:/youandmeonajamboree.blogspot.com/ They don't specialize in dub but the. Is one of the best dub albums I've heard. Another fave is 'A Dub Experience' with rhythm provided by Sly and Robbie and mixed by Paul Groucho Smylke - it's awesome. Sly & Robbie - Meet Bunny Lee At Dub Station 2002. Dub Takeover. Nobodies Dub. A Dub Tribulation. Liquidator Dub. African Dub Child (Part 1). None Shall Escape The House Of Dub. Legalise The Dub. Satta Massa Dub. A Bad Way To Dub. Dub To The Roots. Zion Gates Of Dub. Looking In The.

The Skatalites included such wonderful musicians as Tommy McCook, Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, Lester Sterling, Lloyd Brevett, Jerry Haynes, Jackie Mittoo, Lloyd Knibb, Johnny Moore and Jackie Opel. Some of the groups earliest recordings were cut at Studio One, there they quickly became the regular in-house session players for many other artists such Delroy Wilson, Desmond Dekker, Lee Perry and The Wailing Wailers. The Skatalites worked with almost every producer on the island, recording for the likes of Duke Reid, Coxsone Dodd, Prince Buster, Leslie Kong, Sonia Pottinger, Randy Chin and many many others.

By the end of the 1960's most of the group had began working as independent session players and as members of other groups but they would regularly work together and even reform for reunion shows throughout the 70's and 80's. Tracklisting: 1) Guns Of Navarone 2) Eastern Standard Time 3) Garden Of Love 4) (Music Is My) Occupation 5) Knock Out Punch 6) Latin Goes Ska 7) Silver Dollar 8) Alley Pang 9) Two For One 10) Nimrod 11) I Should Have Known Better 12) Perhaps 13) Hot Cargo 14) Beardsman Ska 15) Corner Stone 16) Musical Communication 17) Christine Kieler 18) Ska In Vienna Woods 19) Cleopatra 20) Black Sunday 21) Lucky Seven 22) Dick Tracy 23) Don De Lion 24) Ska-Ba 25) Dr. Tracklisting: 1) Mellow Mood 2) What An Experience 3) Just A Stranger Here 4) Mr. Big Man 5) The First Cut Is The Deepest 6) Black Woman 7) Down In The Valley 8) Zion Chant 9) Strength To Go Through 10) Many Are Called 11) Sister's Chant 12) Mr.

Ultimate Guitar Pro Free Download Apk here. Dee Jay 13) Get Happy 14) Concrete Jungle 15) I Am Not Mechanical 16) On Your Mark 17) You Don't Care 18) Watchdogs 19) Only A Woman 20) Got To Leave The West 21) Think 22) Sing Our Own Song Get It Here --- Further Listening: Mellow Mood (1975 - Tuff Gong) - Black Woman (1979 - Island) - Mr. Dee Jay (1981 - Ashandan) - Only A Woman (1982 - Shanachie) - Working Wonders (1985 - Shanachie) - Love Is Overdue (1986 - Shanachie) - Look At Love (1991 - KOCH) - Rock Me (1993 - Pow Wow) - Love (1998 - African Love) - Sing Our Own Song (2003 - Shanachie). Other Notable Collections Include: The I-Threes Beginning (1986 - Tuff Gong) - The Gaylettes We Shall Sing 1967-1973 (2001 - Westside) - Something Old, Something New (2002 - Tuff Gong). Satta Masa Gana - The Essential Abyssinians The Abyssinians are one of the great roots harmony groups to emerge from the 1970's scene. The group formed in the very late 1960's comprising brothers Donald and Lynford Manning alongside Bernard Collins, the music they would create over the coming years would be some of the most highly regarded Rastafarian themed recordings to appear from the island.

Songs such as 'Satta Masa Gana', 'Y Mas Gan' and 'Mabrak' had lyrics sung in the ancient Ethiopic Amharic language, whilst other popular singles including 'Declaration Of Rights', 'African Race' and 'Forward On To Zion' established the group as a major force in roots reggae. The Abyssinians worked with many of the leading producers in Jamaica including Geoffrey Chung, Clive Hunt, Tommy Cowan and Lloyd Daley. By the 1980's The Abyssinians had a rotating line-up with Collins often being replaced by the third Manning brother Carlton, whilst Collins would make appearances with an alternative version of The Abyssinians of his own creation. The original line-up of The Abyssinians reunited in 1998 and once again began recording and performing, the resulting album 'Reunion' was reasonably successful but the trio split again the following year and Collins once again created an alternative version of the group for his own material.

The Abyssinians have given us some wonderful music over the years which is treasured by their many fans and those with a love of great roots harmony reggae music. Tracklisting: 1) Johnny Too Bad 2) Run Fattie 3) I Want To Take A Chance 4) Jump Out The Frying Pan 5) Mother Matty 6) Wala Wala 7) Gold On Your Dress 8) Say You 9) Go Back Home 10) You Can't Win 11) Man Beware 12) Coolie Gal 13) Bounce Me Johnny 14) Dread Selassie 15) Ob La Di, Ob La Da 16) Dance Crashers 17) Good Nanny 18) I A Dread 19) Red Gun Court 20) Right On Time 21) Mother And Child Reunion 22) Hang On Sloopy 23) Many Rivers To Cross 24) Must Surrender 25) St.

Jago De La Vega 26) Black And White 27) The Time Has Come 28) Cus Cus Get It Here: Further Listening: Many Rivers To Cross (1976 - Klik) - Breakthrough (1979 - TAD's) Other Notable Collections Include: Johnny Too Bad - The Very Best Of (2013 - SRRM *Unofficial Release*). One Draw - The Essential Rita Marley Rita Marley (wife of the legendary Bob Marley) began her music career as part of the all-female rocksteady vocal trio The Soulettes alongside Constantine 'Dream' Walker and Marlene 'Precious' Gifford in the early 1960's. The Soulettes had some minor success in Jamaica with singles including 'Don't Care What The People Say', 'One More Chance' and a cover of The Beatles' 'Let It Be', they also provided backing vocals on early singles from The Wailers, Lee Perry and others during this period. By the mid-1970's Rita Marley became a key part of her husbands' backing group The Wailers providing backing vocals alongside Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, collectively known as The I-Threes. In 1980 Rita released her debut solo album 'Who Feels It Knows It' on the Tuff Gong label, the album featured the well received singles 'One Draw', 'A Jah Jah' and 'That's The Way (Jah Planned It)'. Since Bob Marley's death in 1981 Rita has continued the Marley Family legacy with further solo albums including 'Harambe' (1982), 'We Must Carry On' (1991) and 'Sunshine After Rain' (2003).

Her children (Ziggy, Stephen and Cedella) are also well established Reggae artists in their own right. Tracklisting: 1) Cool Pon Your Corner 2) Selah (Enter The Kingdom Of Zion) 3) Politician 4) Give Another Israel A Try 5) Mr. Tracklisting: 1) I've Got A Feeling 2) Mr. Morning 3) Kpangolo 4) Majek Beware 5) Promised Land 6) African Unity 7) Religion Is Politics 8) I Wanna Know 9) Majek Fashek In A New York 10) Hotel California 11) I Come From The Ghetto 12) Prostitute Destitute 13) I'm Not Tired 14) Send Down The Rain Get It Here -- Further Listening: Prisoner Of Conscience (1988 - Tabansi) - I And I Experience (1989 - Tabansi) - So Long Too Long (1990 - CBS Nigeria) - Spirit Of Love (1990 - Interscope) - The Best Of Majek Fashek (1994 - Flame Tree) - Rainmaker (1997 - Tuff Gong) - Little Patience (2004 - Coral). That's it for Part Three of The Essential Reggae Collection, we hope that you are enjoying this ongoing series that explores some great artists and sub-genres. Let us know what you think, Which artists have you enjoyed discovering?

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Kalcidis wrote:I've never actually heard Dub Experience. Seen it a couple of times but never given it a chance. Will definitely check it out. The other two albums that Guillame mentions are both fantastic dub sets. Other albums they play that I really rate are The Dub Factor (Black Uhuru) and Beware (Yabby You). While we're marginally on the topic.

What was the original cut to the »I'm Allright« cut on Rebel Soljie? I dont know which cut you're referring to. The tracklist is Alert Stand Down Ration Ayatollah Fire Call Charge Retreat Reveille Detention Rebel Soldier check out and let me know. I may be able to assist you, if I'm lucky.