The Course of a Lifetime

Derrick Harriott Some Guys Have All The Luck

Derrick Harriott Standin' In

Horace Andy Mother & Child Reunion

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Soundalikes Or Kindalikes...

Poor choice of slacks, Pops, and that collar's far too wide.
Nice cricket sweater, though!

The Beatles Let It Be
Pluto Boogie Bump
Leonard Cohen Ain't No Cure For Love

Dad-approved parent rock for mid-morning melancholics seeking salvation in the form of secular spirituals.

Fake It Till You Ja-Make It.

Althea Forrest & Donna Reid

Patchworks & Mr. Day Brothers On The Slide
Althea & Donna Uptown Ranking
Dillinger Cocaine In My Brain
Barrington Levy Here I Come
Damian Marley Welcome to Jamrock
Sister Nancy Bam Bam

Reggae, Dancehall, Dub - these are genres that I have only a passing knowledge of (unlike the devoted heads at Masala) and have never devoted enough time to speak with any authority about the music at all, much less to pass on a pastiche history of soundclashes, Studio One legends, and the potent strains of marijuana best suited for auditory hallucinations. I have no idea how a knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork spells New York. But what I do now is that the 6 songs above are extremely solid anchors with which to build a set that any hapless DJ can use. Brothers on the Slide is a cover of the Cymande original, and anyone who has been to a Bridge Burner in the past couple of years will recognize Welcome to Jamrock as Montreal's unofficial summer anthem.

Square Quotes Episode 10
Sister Nancy Interview

Last year while I was working on Square Quotes, my co-host Alexander Buckiewicz-Smith got the chance to do an interview with Sister Nancy, now a banker in New York, to promote her appearance at the Pop Montreal International Music Festival last year. It's about 4 minutes in for the Sister Nancy Interview. (Yes, past Ali Rahman's Ira Glass impersonation.)