
"And love's the best endeavor, waiting in the lion's mane..." Presenting a roaring six pack for your listening pleasure, straight from the lion's mouth. Hic sunt leones . Big Chief - Lion's Mouth Iron & Wine - Lion's Mane Duke Mitchell - The Lion Lonnie McIntorsh - The Lion And The Tribes Of Judah Yabby You - Conquering Lion Kenny Drew - Lion's [...]

"Without love you're like a ship that's lost its anchor, lost at sea in the swirling tides..." Presenting a conquering ten pack, inna strictly roots stylee of course. Cause you just can't conquer natty dreadlocks, seen? Prince Alla - Only Love Can Conquer MP3 The Meditations - Rasta Shall Conquer MP3 Linval Thompson - Jah Jah The Conqueror MP3 Dennis Brown - Conqueror MP3 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Duppy Conqueror [...]
Winston McAnuff naît en 1957 dans une famille de pasteurs à Christiana en Jamaïque. A l'initiative de parents mélomanes, c'est dans le gospel qu'il fera ses premier pas. Il n'a que 13 ans quand les futures icônes du reggae jamaïcain Hugh Mundell, Earl Sixteen et Wayne Wade auditionnent à ses côtés auprès d'influents producteurs de Kingston : respectivement Joe Gibbs, Derrick Harriott et Yabby You . Il est l'auteur du titre "Malcolm X" interprété par Earl Sixteen puis Dennis Brown. Sa carrière est véritablement lancée lorsque Derrick Harriott produira son premier album Pick Hits [...]

Right at its tail end, here´s another edition of Wild Weekend , which means the iPod shuffle once again came up with a flaming six pack of goodies. This week it´s all about getting your fortune told, running the voodoo down while blood runs down King Street, meeting the Venus de Milo, and chasing a vampire. All for a price of course. All for a price. We´ll get this show on the road with a track from one of my all-time fave albums: the amazing Marquee Moon . An organic [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Jamaican music pioneer Yabby You , who was also known to reggae fans throughout the world as the "Jesus Dread," died of a stroke last month, according to the Guardian . Unique for his embrace of Christianity over the Rastafarian beliefs often associated with the genre and his dedication to roots reggae, the performer and producer was 63. Born Vivian Jackson, he was one of six children raised in a Kingston ghetto. Fascinated with the Bible from an early age, he left home at [...]

Le chanteur et producteur Yabby You est décédé le 12 Janvier dernier. Né dans les années 40 à Kingston, Yabby You, de son vrai nom Vivian Jackson, fut un acteur majeur de la musique jamaïquaine durant les années 70. Issu d'une famille pauvre, le jeune Vivian Jackson se retrouve à 12 ans dans les rues de Kingston. Déjà à cet âge, Yabby You n'est pas un jeune comme les autres: il entend des voix et entretient un mysticisme poussé. Peu de temps [...]

Tragedy. I just found out that seminal reggae icon, musician, producer and all around dub specialist Vivian 'Yabby You' Jackson (see above pic) passed away this Tuesday. Digging through the Stotch archives comes up with a big fat zero of Yabby covers, and inversely I managed to find only a grand total of one song that he covered. So for what it's worth here's Yabby You covering Stranger in Love [...]