Caribbean Thursdays

[johncorrigan]

Start of November and the prospect of Day of the Dead approaching, one needs a spot of cheering and I regularly turn to Prince Fatty with his cover of Cypress Hill's 'Insane In The Brain' ft. Horseman - guaranteed to bring a smile to my face. ...which is nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuaefqgKs-g

Perhaps Harry Belafonte would have been more appropriately seasonal*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RixHMMTM0dQ

*contains Zombie references!

[johncorrigan]

Another one courtesy of Mr Musselwhite's playlist in Songlines this edition. Here's Quarteto Patria from Cuba with 'El Cuarto de Tula' - totally fab!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yP4gtyUQM

Happy Caribbean Thursday Cats!

[johncorrigan]

Lokkhi Terra meets Dele Sosimi - Cubafro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScdqDr5t8jI

Mighty fine record!

[johncorrigan]

Love a spot of Tommy McCook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29rH6_9fFg

[johncorrigan]

Just in time for a Caribbean Thursday, I see that Reggae has been added to UNESCO’s ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ List for this year. Here's their successful pitch:

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

[johncorrigan]

We all know that Reggae got Soul too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95lpCDkoA-0

[johncorrigan]

Nowt like a spot of Augustus and his melodica for a mid-winter Caribbean Thursday...'Too Late'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4RudVhOiQY

[Lat-Literal]

British Caribbean, 2018:

Steel Pulse - Stop You Coming and Come - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYIJG6cW_4g

[johncorrigan]

By my estimations it's Thursday today and this very fine record turned up under the Christmas Tree. So here's 'Port-au-Prince' by Moonlight Benjamin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcUgMoraj-0

[johncorrigan]

Angela Prince with 'You A Fool Boy' for a Caribbean Thursday if you don't mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfB13YIDedU

[johncorrigan]

Lord Kitchener's tribute to the jazzers and the afro beat with 'Kitch's Bebop Calypso' for a freezin' Carib Thursday. That should bring the sun out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7k14W7-F4

[johncorrigan]

14th today so what better way to celebrate a Caribbean Thursday than 'Two Sevens Clash' from Culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0Zm8h29jE

[johncorrigan]

Here's a very excellent track from former Carolina Chocolate Drops' singer Leyla McCalla who goes back to her Haitian roots with 'Lavi Vye Neg' from her new record, 'The Capitalist Blues', and brought to you by Happy Caribbean Thursdays.

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

[johncorrigan]

(as mentioned elsewhere by ts)...In memory of Ranking Roger who died this week, here for a Caribbean Thursday is his excellent version of the Clash's 'Rock the Casbah'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eskAMmIXKl8

[Globaltruth]

Harry Belafonte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Gbk4i41_M

I'd very much like to hear an equivalent paean to England....