26 February 2021

Down to Now

 

 Last history lesson from the Last Poets.


 

The Black Panther Party & Black Lives Matter are American history. Let us ponder on the lessons we can learn by examining the systemic injustice meted out against them by the racist power elite.

 

This is the music of Black lives. Listen & learn. We can overcome if we stand strong & proud...if we raise our voices in song united.

Various - Black & Proud Vol. 1, Trikont US-0302, 2002.
all decryption codes in comments


Heritage of a Black Man - Sam Dees
Panther - Last Poets
Right On - Son of Slum
Brand New Day - Staple Singers
Get Involved - George Soule
Be Black - Grady Tate
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
Message from a Black Man - Derrick Harriott
You're the Man - Marvin Gaye
Tell it Like it Is - S.O.U.L.
Black Wish - Last Poets
James Brown - Ghetto Reality (Nancy Dupree)
Ghetto Child - Curtis Mayfield
Let My People Go - Darongo
All Hid - Camille Yarbrough
Swee Sweetback's Baadass Song / Won't Bleed Me - Melvin Van Peebles
Stand Up & Be Counted - Getto Kitty
Do You Remember Malcolm - Miriam & Mbongi Makeba

 



Various - Black & Proud Vol. 2, Trikont US-0306, 2005.

I'm Talkin 'Bout Freedom - Syl Johnson
Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul - Gil Scott-Heron
Malcolm X - Earl Sixteen
There's Something Wrong with This Picture - Galactic
2000 Years - Cipher Jewels
Walk Tall - Cannonball Adderley
Black Seeds - The Main Ingredient
Brown Baby - Derrick Harriott
Sounds of Black - The Sounds of Black
Blackenized - Hank Ballard
What We Need - Wendell Harrison & Phil Ranelin
Respect Yourself - Staple Singers
Don't You Know You're Wrong, Brother - Walter Heath
Wake Up - Larry Williams
I Wish I Knew (How it Would Feel to be Free) - Marlena Shaw
Lady Day & John Coltrane - Gil Scott-Heron
Down to Now - Last Poets featuring Chuck D
Reluctant Warrior - Assata Shakur featuring Asian Dub Foundation

Enjoy,

24 February 2021

Soul Men

 Four Lessons


 

 

Studying the lives of the following four musicians will teach a great lesson in Black History. I will leave it to others better equipped & better acquainted to tell those tales.

Here are a few choices:
Curtis Mayfield - People Never Give Up, author Peter Burns
Bill Withers - Still Bill directed by Damani Baker & Alex Vlack: documentary 1h 18m
Bobby Womack - Midnight Mover memoir: autobiography
Charles Bradley - Soul of America, a documentary directed by Poull Brien

These men tasted Amerikkka at it bitterest & its sweetest. They filled their music with that heady repast & all its intimate tastes. If we just listen & learn, enjoy to the depths of our souls, we will all be better people.

Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, & record producer. Mayfield was one of the most influential musicians behind politically conscious African-American music.  Mayfield sang openly about civil rights & black pride. He is  known for introducing social consciousness into African-American music. Having been raised in the Cabrini-Green projects of Chicago, he witnessed many of the tragedies of the urban ghetto first hand. Curtis was quoted saying "With everything I saw on the streets as a young black kid, it wasn't hard during the later fifties & sixties for me to write my heartfelt way of how I visualized things, how I thought things ought to be."

Curtis Mayfield - Give, Get, Take, & Have, Curtom CU 5007, 1976.
all decryption codes in comments


Side 1 -
In Your Arms Again (Shake It)
This Love is Sweet
P.S. I Love You
Party Night

Side 2 -
Get a Little Bit (Give, Get, Take, & Have)
Soul Music
Only You Babe
Mr. Welfare Man



Bill Withers

William Harrison "Bill" Withers Jr. (July 4, 1938 – March 30, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter & musician. Withers was known for his "smooth" baritone vocals & "sumptuous" soul arrangements. He wrote some of the most covered songs of the 1970s, including "Lean on Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine". The ultimate homespun hitmaker, Withers had an innate sense of what might make a song memorable. He had little interest in excess attitude or accoutrements. Ultimately Withers reminded us that it's the everyday that is the most meaningful: work, family, love, loss.


Lovely Day
Use Me
Just the Two of Us
Lean on Me
Ain’t No Sunshine
I Don’t Know
Who is He (& What is He to You?)
Harlem
Kissing My Love
Hello Like Before
Let Me Be the One You Need
Watching You, Watching Me
In the Name of Love
Tender Things
Lonely Town, Lonely Street
I Don’t Want You on My Mind
Grandma’s Hands
I Want to Spensd the Night
I Wish You Well



 
Bobby Womack


Robert Dwayne Womack (March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, & record producer. Born in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood, near East 85th Street & Quincy Avenue, Bobby was the third of five brothers. They all grew up in the Cleveland slums, so poor that the family would fish pig snouts out of the local supermarket's trash. He had to share a bed with his brothers. His mother told him he could "sing his way out of the ghetto." Recalling his childhood, Bobby said, "We came up very poor.  The neighborhood was so ghetto that we didn't bother the rats & they didn't bother us. Womack honestly recalled his frequent drug use. Womack said he began using cocaine sometime in the late 1960s. He had become close friends with Sly Stone & was an enthusiastic participant in Stone's infamous drug binges. Womack told Rolling Stone in 1984: "I was really off into the drugs. Blowing as much coke as I could blow. And drinking. And smoking weed and taking pills. Doing that all day, staying up seven, eight days. Me & Sly were running partners."


Here's Bobby's very last hurrah...

Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe, XL Recordings XLCD561, 2012.

The Bravest Man in the Universe
Please Forgive My Heart
Deep River
Dayglo Reflection
Whatever Happened to the Times
Stupid Introlude
If There Wasn't Something There
Love is Gonna Lift You Up
Nothin' Can Save Ya
Jubilee (Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around)
 
 


 
 
Charles Bradley


Charles Edward Bradley (November 5, 1948 – September 23, 2017) was an American singer. After years of obscurity & a part-time music career, Bradley came to prominence in his early 50s. He had traveled the world but in the mid 90s he returned to Brooklyn to be near his mother. It was there he began making a living moonlighting as a James Brown impersonator in local clubs under the name "Black Velvet".  While performing as "Black Velvet", he was eventually discovered by Gabriel Roth (better known as "Bosco Mann"), a co-founder of Daptone Records. Bradley's performances & style were consistent with the revivalist approach of Daptone Records, celebrating the feel of funk & soul music from the 1960s / 1970s.

Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming, Daptone Records DAP-022, 2011.

The World (is Going Up in Flames)
The Telephone Song
Golden Rule
I Believe in Your Love
Trouble in the Land
Lovin' You, Baby
No Time for Dreaming
How Long
In You (I Found a Love)
Why is it so Hard
Since Our Last Goodbye
Heartaches & Pain

Nothin' can save ya.

Enjoy,

21 February 2021

Break Down the Walls of Injustice

 

 

 

During his maiden session with Was (Not Was), Randy Jacobs met Sweet Pea Atkinson on a cold night in the Motor City at Sound Suite Studio. The connection was immediate & a life-long bond was forged between the two artists.


After their European tour opening for Dire Straits in 1992 the Was Band went on hiatus. Randy started writing songs for a solo project while earning a living in Los Angeles playing with or recording for the likes of Bonnie Raitt, BB King, Seal, Paula Abdul, Kris Kristofferson, Ofra Haza, Tears For Fears, Warren Hill, & others. Likewise, Sweet Pea was also in Los Angeles doing background vocals for artists like Neil Diamond, Bonnie Raitt, Keb Mo, & Bob Seger.



 

 

Jacobs had been working with various singers looking for the right voice for his new band when Atkinson called to say that he wanted to be part of Randy’s brand new thing. 



So the Boneshakers journey began...



The Boneshakers - Book of Spells, Pointblank VPBCD 40, 1997.
decryption code in comments

Cold Sweat
Break Down the Walls
I Blew Up the United States
Part Time Man
I’m Living All of My Days for You
Welcome to My Life
Why Don’t You Want Me
Queenie’s Groove
Let’s Straighten it Out
The One You Run To
Don’t Tear My Heart Apart
Long Way Down
Fudgie Brown

Enjoy,

14 February 2021

While We’re Driving...Let’s Head on Down to New Orleans in Bobby's Bus

Black History Month takes on The Big Easy

It’s hot up in here.

Since I over-stayed my visit to New Jersey, I’ve hit the road once more. Heading down to New Orleans for my next Black History hit.

Let’s start off with a man who does the sound of New Orleans I love the best...Emmett Ellis, Jr. More than seven decades into his storied music career, the Funky Old Man Mr. Bobby Rush.



Bobby Rush With Blinddog Smokin'  – Decisions, Silver Talon STF-393, 2014.
all decryption codes in comments


Another Murder in New Orleans
Decisions
Bobby Rush's Bus
If That's the Way You Like it, I Like It
Funky Old Man
Love of a Woman
Stand Back
Skinny Little Woman
Dr. Rush
Too Much Weekend



 

Born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, the unrivaled Queen of New Orleans Soul, a title officially bestowed on her by local officials, no less...Ms. Irma Lee Thomas. Sweet soul surrender.


Irma Thomas - Soul Queen of New Orleans, Maison De Soul LP 1005, 1978.

Side One -
Breakaway
Ruler of My Heart
Hittin' on Nothin'
Hip Shakin' Mama
For the Good Times

Side Two -
Don't Blame Him
It's Raining
Wish Someone Would Care


 
 
Born in 1938 in New Orleans, raised in a shotgun shack in the Gert Town neighborhood by his mother, Naomi Neville. The Dew Drop Tousan. Mr. New Orleans. Allen Toussaint.
 
 
Allen Toussaint - From a Whisper to a Scream re-issue, Kent Records CDKENM 036, 1985.

From a Whisper to a Scream
Chokin' Kind
Sweet Touch of Love
What is Success
Working in the Coal Mine
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
Either
Louie
Cast Your Fate to the Wind
Number Nine
Pickles

Rerelease of Toussaint on Scepter Records SPS 24003, 1970 with slightly different track order & addition song ''Number Nine''.
 
 
 

& finally, a mix of deep & dirty New Orleans Funk.
 

Various - Voodoo Soul, Metro METRCD060, 2001

Cissy Strut - The Meters
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky - Lee Dorsey
Ride Your Pony - Betty Harris
Brother Man, Sister Ann - Clemon Smith
Here Comes the Metermen - The Meters
A Lover & a Friend - Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham
I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Skip Easterling
Occapella - Lee Dorsey
Fairchild - Willie West
Pass the Hatchet - Roger & the Gypsies
Ease Back - The Meters
Louie - Allen Toussaint
Get ta Steppin' - Robert Palmer
Sissy Walk - Skip Jones
Soul Junction - Backyard Heavies
We're Doing It (Thang) - Eddie Bo

Enjoy,

12 February 2021

A Fantastic Voyage from Oklahoma City to Dayton, Ohio to Plainfield, New Jersey

 

 Black History Month on the move.


Start in Oklahoma City...

In the South it's usually a fact that if you live near the railroad tracks or by the river, you're probably live in the bad part of town. The Moore house was built on stilts, with the river on one side & the railroad tracks on the other.

 

According to Harold Moore Sr.: He had four children, Jr. & his three sisters who had been abandoned by their alcoholic mom. Harold Sr. worked for a very rich woman who took a liking to the kids & bought them musical instruments, even paying for lessons. She made the kids a deal that if they learned how to play at least three songs she would get them a slot on some local TV telethon. The kids took to music very quickly. Within a year they were appearing on local TV.  The response was so good that the woman paid for them to record an LP but suggested they write "original" songs. This is where Harold Sr. comes in. Dad wrote all the songs that appear on the LP, with most of them being attacks on the drunken & supposedly abusive ex-Mrs. Moore… "Mama drinks Tequila / She stays drunk all the time." Once the LP was recorded & pressed, the next step was to get them in the local record stores. At least one store told Mr. Moore that they could not stock them unless they were shrink-wrapped. Harold went to a butcher shop where his brother worked. Harold used their shrink-wrap machine to seal the LPs… unfortunately, this was a high heat machine. Sr. had melted every single LP in the process. This wasn't discovered until someone bought one & took it home. All the LPs were pulled from the stores. Rather than re-press it, the woman decided to release some 45s.

These 45s were compiled to recreate the original melted LP.

Jr. & his Soulettes - Psychodelic Sounds, HMM Records SH 954-955, 1971.
all decryption codes in comments

Side One -
Thing, Do the Creep
Momma Love Tequilla
Pimp
Waw-Waw Rock
Love from Above
Flip Will
Do Your Funky Thing

Side Two -
Slow
Sweet Little One
Kewetha
Kat-Walk
Rock 'N Roll Santa
Rock Blues
Pop Junior Pop

Jr & his Soulettes: Harold M. Moore, Jr. - guitar & vocals  (age 10); Jacqueln Carol Moore waw waw organ & vocals (age 6); Vinita Marie Moore - bass & organ (age 6); & Denise Marshell Moore - drummer (age 7).

 
 
I never know how the lesson plan is going to turn out before I get ready for class. This time it was driven by a comment on the Wackies post from aboynamedstew. So mixing the classroom/roadtrip metaphor, I decided to detour to Dayton, Ohio before heading on to New Jersey.

Dayton Funk Connection

Being originally from Pennsylvania & spending much time in the musick dives of neighboring Ohio, as well as being a Funk fanadelic, Dayton Funk has always held a place in my heart.

Of course there's Ohio Players (I've posted Skin Tight over at digital meltd0wn blog). I'm giving some different tastes from FunkenTown so although the Players are sublime (& their covers even more sublime), you'll have to grab that Ohio elsewhere, player. Ditto Zapp (however I've added a tribute to Roger Troutman before I leave Dayton).

That's the easy ones, but do you all know Slave or Lakeside or Faze-O or Platypus?...

Steve Arrington of Slave:
     “Dayton's scene was all these bands that didn't sound anything alike. Ohio Players didn't sound anything like Heatwave who didn't sound like Slave; Slave didn't sound like Zapp; Zapp didn't sound like Lakeside. What we got from the Players was, we had to find our own voice. The Dayton sound was—innovation.

But they all had one commonality: Charles Spencer, a music teacher at Roosevelt High School, Dayton, Ohio.. Every band in Dayton that went on to sign a major label deal (including Platypus) had students of Spencer's in them. Spencer made his kids read music & study theory. He also staged battles-of-the-bands to raise money for the school. The funds were good for the musicians but so was the competition; it helped the players hone their skills & also build an audience.


 
Lakeside was loosely formed in 1969, on the cusp of the funk boom in Dayton. It wasn't until the late 70s & early 80s that this group really hit its stride with the hit song "Fantastic Voyage". The song hit #1 on the Billboard R&B charts, propelling the band into the national spotlight for the rest of the 1980s. Say yes.
 


Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage, Solar BXL1-3720, 1980.

Side A -
Fantastic Voyage
Your Love is on the One
I Need You

Side B -
Strung Out
Say Yes
Eveready Man
I Love Everything You Do
Say Yes (reprise)


 
Slave formed in the mid-70s in Dayton. They quickly had a hit single with their song "Slide".  They were known for their use of electric trumpet, fat bass licks, & soaring vocals. They had more hits in the early 80s like "Snap Shot" featured here. Disco funk...it's the spice of life. Smokin'.  I'm enSlaved.


Slave - Show Time, Cotillion SD 5227, 1981.

Side One -
Snap Shot
Party Lites
Spice of Life (oh Yes, You’re the Best)
Smokin

Side Two -
Wait for Me
Steal Your Heart
For the Love of U
Funken Town

This L.P. is dedicated to Allah for the Concepts of Pure Growth!!
 


Faze-O was a late 70s funk group produced by Clarence Satchell of the Ohio Players,

Faze-O - Breakin' the Funk, She Records SH 742, 1979.

Side One -
Breakin’ the Funk
Ya-ba-da-ba-duzie
I Still Love You

Side Two -
Let’s Rock
I’m Tankful
See You Through the Night


 
Platypus was a little known, short-lived disco-funk band that was active in the late 70s-early 80s.They combined their appreciation of the Ohio Players & Parliament/Funkadelic with a lot of disco gloss & occasional rock elements. Unlike the Players or P/Funk, Platypus didn't use any horns.

Platypus - Platypus, Casablanca NBLP 7171, 1979.

Side 1 -
Dancing in the Moonlight
Street Babies
Love the Way You Funk
Don’t Go Away

Side 2 -
Dance if You Can
Running from Love
Body & Soul

 
 
Zapp.  Zapp & Roger.  Roger.  He wore many coats. He was gunned down by his brother.  Tribute.


Victim of Love
More Bounce to the Ounce
Dance Floor
Do it Roger
Heartbreaker (Pt 1 & Pt 2)
Computer Love
Girl, Cut it Out (maxi-single)
Fire
Thrill Seekers (extended remix)

 
 
Now were finally headin' for Plainfield & I feel the pull of the Mothership.

I've posted plenty Funkadelic nectar here & here & here & here, & elsewhere...you can search it out if you want it. Here's some close family representing.




Parlet - Invasion of the Booty Snatchers, Casablanca NBLP 7146, 1979.

Side 1 -
Ridin’ High
No Rump to Bump
Don’t Ever Stop (Lovin’ Me, Needin’ Me)

Side 2 -
Booty Snatchers
You’re Leaving
Huff-n-Puff

Parlet began as: Jeanette Washington (in 1975 she joined Parliament with...);  Debbie Wright (the first female members of Parliament & Funkadelic); & Mallia Franklin (also vocalist with Parliament-Funkadelic who introduced George Clinton & Bootsy Collins in 1971 as well as bringing ex-Ohio Player Junie Morrison to P-Funk in 1978).  Here Parlet is: Jeanette Washington; Shirley Hayden (replacing Debbie Wright): & Janice Evans (replacing Mallia Franklin).

 
 
 
These last two are not really Funk...they're Funk & Punk & Rock & Roll & Soul & Blues & Rap & Poetry & Jimi & they're all P-Funk. This is a Black History lesson for all who will listen. Last days for the revolutions of Jimi. Don’t crash & burn.

Blue Dog Records PCD-2827, 1994.

Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky - John Sinclair with Ras Kente
Purple Hazel - Eddie Hazel
Pleasure With the Dirt Devil - Blackbyrd
Positivity - Michael Hampton
Look Now Baby James Glass & the Get to Gettin’ Band
Fly On -  Blackbyrd
Reflections on Jimi Part 1 - George Clinton
Funky Kazoo - Michael Hampton
The Wind Cries Colors - Ras Kente
Get to the Gettin’ - James Glass & the Get to Gettin’ Band
Future Past - Randall & Allen Lynch
Should’a Known - Randall & Allen Lynch
Reflections on Jimi Part 2 - George Clinton
Debbie Does the Voodo Child - Point Blank

Thanx Jimi - Andre Foxxe
Return of the Gypsy - Johnny Graham
Oh Say Can You See, the Red, the White, & the Blues - Johnny Graham
Father forgive Um - Mud Bone Cooper & Michael Hampton
Jimi Why D-U Have ta Go - Dee Dee "Dirty Mugg" James & Bootsy's Rubber Band
Revolutions of Jimi - Bootsy Collins
Jimi Why D-U Have ta Go (dance version) - "Dirty Mugg" & Bootsy's Rubber Band
Future Equations - The Darryl Plummer Band
What You Gonna Do? - Ras Kente
Fishin; da Sea - Menace
I Need a Man - Menace
Last Days - Menace
Crash & Burn - Andre Foxxe

Both volumes recorded New Orleans, Lousiana; East Detroit, Highland Park, Michigan USA 1994.

Funk On!

10 February 2021

Let’s Move on to Jazz

 

In keeping with the Black History Month theme...Jazz.

 

Jazz originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues & ragtime.



 

As I like my reggae Dubbed & my funk(psych)Adelic, I like my jazz Free. Free your jazz & your mind will follow.

 

Jazz was always a break-through for improvisation in music & thus created freedom. Yet jazz was mired deeply in a swamp of strict structures. Free jazz broke free from that morass into an open space of  "free tonality" in which meter, beat, & formal symmetry no longer applied.

 

The first major stirrings came in the 1950s with the early work of Ornette Coleman (whose 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation coined the term).

 

So in honor of breaking free from formal symmetry, I'll both start & end this chapter with the O.C...Sir Ornette Coleman.


Lotus LOP 14.074, 1980.
all decryption codes in comments


Lato 1 -
Lonely Woman
Monsieur le Prince

Lato 2 -
Forgotten Children
Buddah Blues

The Unprecedented Cast: Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone, trumpet, & shanai; Charles Haden  & David Izenzon - bass; & Ed Blackwell - drums. All written by Ornette.

 




side A -
Don's Dawn
AY

side B -
ITT

NY E & E Crew: Albert Ayler - tenor saxophone; Don Cherry - trumpet; John Tchicai - alto saxophone; Roswell Rudd - trombone; Gary Peacock - bass; & Sonny Murray - drums.



Another one from ESP 1966...


side A -
Strange Uhuru
Lacy's Out East

side B -
Three Spirits
Black Mysticism

 



Anthony Braxton - News from the 70s, Felmay fy 7005, 1999.


Composition 23E
Composition 8C
Composition -1
Composition -2
Composition 8G
Four Winds



Caravan of Dreams Productions CDP85001, 1985.


Side 1 -
To Know What You Know
Harmolodic Bebop
Sex Spy

Side 2 -
City Living
See-Thru
Compute

The Prime Time Crew: Bern Nix & Charles Ellerbee - guitar; Albert MacDowell & Jamaaladeen Tacuma - bass; & Denardo Coleman & Sabir Kamal - drums.



Enjoy,

06 February 2021

Lovers Rock Wackies Style

 

Black History Month


 

 

As the beloved Morgan Freeman sez: "I don't want a Black History month. Black History is American History."   But the greatest thing about Black History Month is that it is a time when the culture & contributions of African Americans take center stage. These contributions are highlighted in a variety of cultural institutions including theaters, schools, libraries, & museums. Nowhere are the contributions of African Americans more greatly showcased for me than through the voices of Black Musick.

 I have decided to concentrate my efforts this month on some of their music on this forum. Hope you enjoy.

One Draw



 





Since DUB is my lifeblood & Lloyd Barnes' studio at 4371 White Plains Road, Bronx, NY was probably the very first DUB studio in the USofA, good place to start this thing. 

 

I’ve covered a great deal of Wackies output here or here or here in the past.



 

 

The key to Barnes' Bullwackies sound was his unique use of relatively humble tools: a moog synthesizer; a DI box for that distinctive quaking bass: & a big Ampex machine for his eight track tape recorder (this machine now finds a home in the Les Paul Museum). Slight but significant innovations were also made with a special booth constructed for the recording of the drums which Lloyd covered in tailored padding & aluminum foil. Somehow, the process created a sound that still transcends.


 

I'm gonna start at the beginning, with the first album, Wackies #1...



all decryption codes in comments

Side A -
Addis Ababa Dub
Rock Ago Rock
Undying Dub
Freedom Dub
Gem Rock Dub

Side B -
Wackies Rock Tune
Mozambique Trial
Always Dubbing
Betrayers Call
This Exit



Roots Underground - Tribesman Assault, Wackies Senta-L-0038, 1977.

Side A -
High Times
Makka Root
Tribal Rock
Dread Feeling
Wrong Cord

Side B -
Shotgun Skank
Disco Reggae Rocker
Black Brigade
Tribesman Assualt
Open the Gates (K.C. White & the Love Joys)
 
 

Side A -
There You Are
Sing & Shout
Jah Don't Like That
Hey Lady
Joy, Joy

Side B -
I Gave You Love
Dancing in the Rain
Mash Down Babylon
Back to Africa
All Things
 


Most of the rest of these are with non-JA, US-based artists 
 
 

Joe Morgan & Reckless Breed - Basement Session 7", Bullwackies Records Senta-0033, 1976.
 
Side A -
Basement Session

Side B -
Basement Scrub
 


Joe Axumite - No Equal Rights in Babylon, City Line Records SENTA-2004, 1978.

Side A -
No Equal Rights in Babylon - Joe Axumite

Side B -
No Equal Rights in Babylon (version) - Bullwackies All Stars
 


Itopia - Creation, Wackies-272A, 1981.

Side A -
Creation

Side B -
Creation Dubwise version
 


Itopia - Message from Jah, Wackies-273, 1981.

Side A -
Message from Jah

Side B -
Message from Jah Dubwise version
 
 


Junior Delehaye - Showcase, Wackies W-1382, 1982.

Side A -
Love
(I Love You) For All Seasons
All I Need is Jah

Side B -
Travelling Man
Sitting in the Park
Your All I Need (Movie Show)
 
 


Love Joys - Lovers Rock Reggae Style, Wackies W-2383, 1983.

Side A -
One Draw
Long Lost Lover
Stranger

Side B -
Let Me Rock You Now
Chances Are
All I Can Say
 
 


Jah Batta - Argument, Wackies W-2395, 1983.

Side A -
No Meat
Ten to Seven
Argument
I Don't Want to Wait
Mi Black

Side B -
Youthman School
Hold on 'Pon the Woman
Informa (Watch It)
Youthman Time
Out a Reach
 
 

Side A -
Brass Pipes
Rockfort Rock
Drum Song
Song Maker

Side B -
Pie Song
African Rootie
Music Man Rock
Version Pipe


 
& a few scattered left-overs...
 

Mango Walk (Dubwise version) - Chosen Brothers
Working Hard for the Rent Man - Junior Delahaye
Roots Rock Special (extended version) - Wackies
Gimme Back (Part 2) - Love Joys w/ Wackies Rhythm Force
Movie Show Dubwise - Bullwackies All Stars
Mystic Revellation - Junior Delahaye
March Down Babylon version - The Chosen Brothers


 
Let's end with Bullwackies All Stars one more time...scratching guitar & scorching street stride bass rhythm & horn, the kind which usually accompanies the deadpan cool of some mustachioed, ball-busting, honkey-slapping Blaxploitation vigilante. A surprisingly balanced mix of DUB & funk released on Aires, one of Wackies many sister imprints.
 

Side A -
Skin Tight Part 1

Side B -
Skin Tight Part 2

Enjoy,