Livicated: One Man’s Quest to Preserve Reggae History
Reggae music maintains that music is a weapon to be used for social change and revolution. Roger Steffens spent the past thirty years preserving a voice that calls out for equality and human rights—a...
View ArticleBob Marley interview, The Berkeley Barb, Oakland, 1976
Peter van Arnhem Contributing Editor As we continue to mark the 70th anniversary of Bob Marley we share with you a rarely circulated interview which catches Marley in Oakland, CA. The interview was...
View ArticleGladiators Live, The Haunt, Ithaca, NY, 1987
Here is an excellent soundboard recording of the Gladiators performing some of their most beloved tunes at The Haunt in Ithaca, NY on February 27, 1987. Fantastic set which also includes several Bob...
View ArticleThe Dan who cooked for Bob
WHEN he went on tour, it was not all music for Bob Marley. He was passionate about football and fitness, and he loved food. Marley had two official cooks who travelled with him at different stages of...
View ArticleJoe’s Reggae Books
Joe Jurgensen is a lifelong Wailers and reggae fan, lover and collector. Within his collection of Wailers memorabilia, Joe has amassed an almost complete library or rather truthbrary of Bob Marley...
View ArticleJamaica: The Young Lion Roars by Chris Salewicz, NME, May 27, 1978
Today we share with you from our press archives Chris Salewicz’s groundbreaking definitive feature on the Jamaican music scene, Jamaica: The Young Lion Roars, which was published in the May 27, 1978...
View ArticleExclusive Words with Bob Marley, Natural Mystic, New Musical Express, April...
Included here is an exclusive interview with Bob Marley that appeared in the April 23, 1977 issue of New Musical Express…
View ArticleFrom Denham Town To Georgia Avenue: The Delroy Wright Interview – Part I
Today I find myself at a home in Gaithersburg, MD sitting across the kitchen table from one Delroy “Barry” Wright, record producer and owner of Live & Learn records. I had been seeking to link...
View ArticleDennis Brown w/ Big Youth “In His Own Way” (Gussie ’76)
Today I share with you a SERIOUS tune from my collection. Dennis Brown w/ Big Youth “In His Own Way,” which is produced by Augustus “Gussie” Clarke. The tune was issued on a Gussie ’76 12″ in 1979....
View ArticleAugustus Pablo: Charing Cross, London, 1985
It’s December 1985 and Augustus Pablo is double-billed along with Junior Delgado and Delroy Williams at the Astoria Theatre in the Charing Cross area of London. ____________________ Augustus Pablo Live...
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