Gomek Dread Tracklisting

Hope you've all had the time to check out my latest effort, the Gomek Dread Podcast, featuring only the finest in heavy roots reggae - strictly dread mi bredren! Here's the full tracklisting: Soon Come - Culture Positive Movement - the Paragons Beggars Suite, Part 1 - Pecker Rise Jah Jah Children - Ras Michael & the Suns of Negus Rasta Dreadlocks - Heaven Singers Rastaman Chant - Bob Marley & the Wailers Pumping Dub - Prince Jammy Slavery Days - Burning Spear Whip Them Jah Jan - Dennis Brown Night Shift - Bob Marley & the Wailers

Rootical Vibrations

Crab Race by the Morwells, from Crab Race (Burning Sounds, 1977) Bird in Hand by the Upsetters, from Return of the Super Ape (VP, 1978) I couldn't hold back any longer from an all-reggae post. I love a wide variety of music, but reggae is always where I come back to... my true favorite. And of all types of reggae, none is better than the dreader-than-dread sounds coming straight from yard in the late 1970s. "Dread" is a hard sound to describe, but it's deep and rootsy, and conjures in the mind images of hot, smoky studios filled with rasta vibrations. 1977 brought us "Crab Race" by the Morwells, a Channel One/Randy's product. Super drum and bass reggae legends Sly & Robbie are one of two rhythm sections credited to the album in general, and it sounds to my ears that it's them at work here. The throbbing heart-like bassline and insistent snare patter gives me that clue. The following year, 1978, saw the release of The Return of the Super Ape album by Lee "Scratch" Perry. Scratch is a master, and at his peak he was simply untouchable. The album became a classic, and you should really go get it if you don't already have it. This song features a chorus sung in Amharic, the language of Ethiopia, and an uncredited singer whose identity has never been revealed...