Caribbean Thursdays

[Lat-Literal]

Hell Yard Steel Band & the Roaring Lion - Lion-Oh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvsV7iJ2YZs
Paix Bouche Cultural Group Dancing (2012) - Bele - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfU3vvjpG84
Valentine Brodie - Life in the Ghetto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvnyuU_Ruc

Marcia Griffiths - Holding You Close - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UsE2_TvCD0
Mr. Ives and Friends - Deye Mon (from Laborie)? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4K95zQ0H8
I Roy and the Ebony Sisters - Let Me Tell You Boy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pWxzfECenY

[Lat-Literal]

I notice that 'Introducing...Ruben Gonzalez' has just been re-released with extra track...maybe not enough to go back and buy again but enough to roll Ruben out for a Caribbean Thursday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oWhz0G4-Tg

My favourite pianist of all time...........great to hear that it has been re-released.

Mindful of Joe Boyd's emphasis on Arsenio Rodriguez - I might have mentioned this before - all his discs are so expensive. Consequently of the very few artists who are now not in my CD collection and who I would like to have in it, he is one. Misty in Roots are another. Crazy prices. If they reflect an intention to re-package I wish the companies would get on with it.

[johncorrigan]

OOPS! Just woke up and it's Thursday...better get up and stand up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F69PBQ4ZyNw

[johncorrigan]

That Gideon Coe chap over on 6 put a kibosh on the days of this week by having a bit of a Caribbean August Bank Holiday shabang as part of his show on Monday. Still, if you fancy an hour of rather excellent Dub have a wee trek over there for the middle hour of the show...v enjoyable way to spend a Carib Thursday...at least it was on Monday. again!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0927dhq

[johncorrigan]

Irma Thomas - 'It's Raining' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNZFbgszrVY

For all those poor folks suffering devastation in the Caribbean islands, and for folk called Irma getting a storm of the like given their name.

[johncorrigan]

For all those poor folks suffering devastation in the Caribbean islands.

...and again this week another one comes along, so here's Hurricane Season by Trombone Shorty for a Carib Thursday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoZhBKZhmT4

...except he plays a trumpet as far as I can make out.

[johncorrigan]

ÌFÉ are from Puerto Rico, but appear to have their roots in Nigeria..it certainly doesn't sound too Carib, though it's not exactly Nigerian either. The first record from them is entitled IIII+IIII, which is apparently pronounce “Edgy-Og-Beh” Here's a track...there's a 12 minute track on youtube but it felt too much for a Caribbean Thursday morning so I'll stick with this one - BANGAH (Pico y Palo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93eNFV5Te64

[johncorrigan]

Carlos Malcolm and & His Afro Jamaican Rhythms, anyone? Bonanza Ska?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VboLaPmScJs

[burning dog]

[johncorrigan]

There's a bit of horsin' about in this one too, dog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuaefqgKs-g

[Globaltruth]

Courtesy of Alex Petridis in his Fats Domino obit.

That didn’t stop huge stars noting his importance: a 2007 tribute album featured Elton John, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant and Randy Newman, alongside a host of New Orleans musicians and Toots and the Maytals. The latter’s presence highlighted Fats Domino’s other great musical feat. If it’s a stretch to suggest he unwittingly invented reggae, his records were certainly regularly played on Jamaican sound systems in the 1950s, and his accentuation of the offbeat in his playing is one of the roots of ska, the music Jamaicans started to make when the supply of suitable American R&B records dried up. Listen to the rhythm of his 1959 single Be My Guest and you can hear what they were trying to imitate.

He's right...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5IYXby3Z4

[johncorrigan]

Courtesy of Alex Petridis in his Fats Domino obit.

He's right...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5IYXby3Z4

You may well be correct there, Global.

Interestingly entitled, however, 'The Godfather of Reggae', the subject is not Fats but Gregory Isaacs in a Beeb Radio2 doc from last night.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0998rj4

[Lat-Literal]

You may well be correct there, Global.

Interestingly entitled, however, 'The Godfather of Reggae', the subject is not Fats but Gregory Isaacs in a Beeb Radio2 doc from last night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0998rj4

Just catching up with a lot of things - for now, I'm a bit surprised by that title.

Can't quite recall how Miss P saw it but for many he was the Cool Ruler.

Black Roots - I Believe featuring Jah Garvey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLlXT3NxC0

[johncorrigan]

Compay Segundo - Guantanamera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEJtFGdKc5M

[Lat-Literal]

Compay Segundo - Guantanamera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEJtFGdKc5M

Oh well, I'm biased as many of us are towards Buena Vista but that, I think, is one of the most recorded songs according to A Kershaw along with Louie Louie, and it is easily made lame. That version, in contrast, has zest - and it is also very moving. It is almost certainly my favourite version.

Now that I'm on a Manu Chao line of thinking - the problem with this game after nearly a decade is that even the commentator is aware of his own repetition but hey - "Guayaquil City" but or because it is a bit of an off centre cheat so far as this thread is concerned - ie it is with the vibe.

I have said to myself that "Puta's Fever" in 1989 is the equivalent to the Clash's "Sandinista" in 1980 - a stretch but I am in no doubt that they are as albums the book ends of that decade. And while each is full of energy - especially the Mano Negra disc - it is the slower ones that win out.

And "Guayaquil" which is hardly typical of "Puta's" is the track, the Marley of all Marleys if he had been Chao, and way too short - in fact, it sounds almost unfinished just as is Sabali but right for being so. It remains the case that the Negra album really does benefit from an end-to-end listen:

Mano Negra - Guayaquil City - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTPPieESd0g

(I could write three paragraphs about this track - it is in its understatement and arrangement so sublime and very summer)