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  1. #FalsettoFriday #Reggae #RootsReggae

    #BobMarleyAndTheWailers - "Mr. Brown" (1970)

    One of those early, pre-Island Records sides that landed on dozens of dubious #BobMarley comps in the 80s/90s, meaning lots of us got to hear it cheap and easy back then. #BunnyWailer's ghostly high notes are really special, but so was #LeePerry's decision to shove that electric keyboard right up front in the mix.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-c

  2. #FalsettoFriday #Reggae #RootsReggae

    #BobMarleyAndTheWailers - "Mr. Brown" (1970)

    One of those early, pre-Island Records sides that landed on dozens of dubious #BobMarley comps in the 80s/90s, meaning lots of us got to hear it cheap and easy back then. #BunnyWailer's ghostly high notes are really special, but so was #LeePerry's decision to shove that electric keyboard right up front in the mix.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-c

  3. #FalsettoFriday #Reggae #RootsReggae

    #BobMarleyAndTheWailers - "Mr. Brown" (1970)

    One of those early, pre-Island Records sides that landed on dozens of dubious #BobMarley comps in the 80s/90s, meaning lots of us got to hear it cheap and easy back then. #BunnyWailer's ghostly high notes are really special, but so was #LeePerry's decision to shove that electric keyboard right up front in the mix.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-c

  4. #FalsettoFriday #Reggae #RootsReggae

    #BobMarleyAndTheWailers - "Mr. Brown" (1970)

    One of those early, pre-Island Records sides that landed on dozens of dubious #BobMarley comps in the 80s/90s, meaning lots of us got to hear it cheap and easy back then. #BunnyWailer's ghostly high notes are really special, but so was #LeePerry's decision to shove that electric keyboard right up front in the mix.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-c

  5. #FalsettoFriday #Reggae #RootsReggae

    #BobMarleyAndTheWailers - "Mr. Brown" (1970)

    One of those early, pre-Island Records sides that landed on dozens of dubious #BobMarley comps in the 80s/90s, meaning lots of us got to hear it cheap and easy back then. #BunnyWailer's ghostly high notes are really special, but so was #LeePerry's decision to shove that electric keyboard right up front in the mix.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-c

  6. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Continuing our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums, our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston. This is the debut album from vocal trio Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning, and is a classic in the roots reggae genre. Accompanying the trio on this album are some familiar names, including the late great Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and Tyrone Downie.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2026/07/24

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/i/1443411990

    Happy listening!

    #TheAbyssinians #reggae #RootsReggae #Jamaica #music #1001OtherAlbums

  7. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Continuing our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums, our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston. This is the debut album from vocal trio Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning, and is a classic in the roots reggae genre. Accompanying the trio on this album are some familiar names, including the late great Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and Tyrone Downie.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2026/07/24

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/i/1443411990

    Happy listening!

    #TheAbyssinians #reggae #RootsReggae #Jamaica #music #1001OtherAlbums

  8. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Continuing our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums, our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston. This is the debut album from vocal trio Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning, and is a classic in the roots reggae genre. Accompanying the trio on this album are some familiar names, including the late great Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and Tyrone Downie.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2026/07/24

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/i/1443411990

    Happy listening!

    #TheAbyssinians #reggae #RootsReggae #Jamaica #music #1001OtherAlbums

  9. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Continuing our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums, our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston. This is the debut album from vocal trio Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning, and is a classic in the roots reggae genre. Accompanying the trio on this album are some familiar names, including the late great Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and Tyrone Downie.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2026/07/24

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/i/1443411990

    Happy listening!

    #TheAbyssinians #reggae #RootsReggae #Jamaica #music #1001OtherAlbums

  10. #NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Reggae #RootsReggae

    One of the very first and best American #reggae bands ever, the #BlueRiddimBand were a bunch of white dudes from Kansas City whose beautiful vocals, lilting horn lines, and deep, deep rhythms landed them a coveted place at Jamaica's #ReggaeSunsplash festival in back to back years '82-'83. Sadly the original tapes to their lone 1981 studio LP ("Restless Spirit" on #FlyingFishRecords) were lost decades ago, so a reissue ain't likely to materialise. Still, their love of the music shines through on vinyl rips forever more.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=KAF-

  11. #NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Reggae #RootsReggae

    One of the very first and best American #reggae bands ever, the #BlueRiddimBand were a bunch of white dudes from Kansas City whose beautiful vocals, lilting horn lines, and deep, deep rhythms landed them a coveted place at Jamaica's #ReggaeSunsplash festival in back to back years '82-'83. Sadly the original tapes to their lone 1981 studio LP ("Restless Spirit" on #FlyingFishRecords) were lost decades ago, so a reissue ain't likely to materialise. Still, their love of the music shines through on vinyl rips forever more.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=KAF-

  12. #NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Reggae #RootsReggae

    One of the very first and best American #reggae bands ever, the #BlueRiddimBand were a bunch of white dudes from Kansas City whose beautiful vocals, lilting horn lines, and deep, deep rhythms landed them a coveted place at Jamaica's #ReggaeSunsplash festival in back to back years '82-'83. Sadly the original tapes to their lone 1981 studio LP ("Restless Spirit" on #FlyingFishRecords) were lost decades ago, so a reissue ain't likely to materialise. Still, their love of the music shines through on vinyl rips forever more.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=KAF-

  13. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston.

    The Abyssinians were a vocal trio of Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning. The title track of this, their debut album,[1] was originally recorded in 1969 for Jamaica’s renowned label Studio One but, after the producer/label owner (Clement “Coxsone” Dodd) held it back, the trio bought the master tapes and self-released it. The song – which has some lyrics in the Ethiopian Amharic language – became a hymn sung in Rastafarian services, and the album as a whole is considered a classic in the roots reggae genre.

    Accompanying the trio on this album are a few familiar names and overall cornerstones of Jamaica’s reggae scene, including:

    • the prolific and late Robbie Shakespeare on bass and Sly Dunbar on drums, who are in at least a couple other albums on The List including Sinéad O’Connor’s Throw Down Your Arms (which has a cover of this album’s “Y Mas Gan”) and to-be-spotlit Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Tyrone Downie on keyboards, who the year previous appeared on Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey and then also in 1976 would make his recording debut as part of Bob Marley & The Wailers on Rastaman Vibration (we’ll hear from Downie again when we get to our spotlights on the live Babylon By Bus, as well as Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Earl “Chinna” Smith on guitars, who was also on Marcus Garvey and Rastaman Vibration, as well as on the to-be-spotlit Lee Perry’s The Upsetters Super Ape and Augustus Pablo’s King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown;
    • plus Mikey “Boo” Richards and Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace (drums), Val Douglas (bass), Mikey Chung (guitars), Geoffrey Chung (keyboards), Jerome Francique and Llewellyn Chang (horns), and Clive Hunt (keyboards, horns, flute) (some or all of whom probably are also hiding elsewhere on The List, for all I know).

    If you’re into dub versions as I am, make sure you also check out Satta Dub (1998) and its Deluxe Expanded Edition (2017).

    1. Originally unofficially released in limited quantities in 1975, 1976 is considered the official release date. The album has also been released under the titles Forward On To Zion and Satta. ↩︎
    #1970s #Jamaica #music #Rastafari #reggae #RobbieShakespeare #rootsReggae #SlyDunbar #TheAbyssinians
  14. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston.

    The Abyssinians were a vocal trio of Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning. The title track of this, their debut album,[1] was originally recorded in 1969 for Jamaica’s renowned label Studio One but, after the producer/label owner (Clement “Coxsone” Dodd) held it back, the trio bought the master tapes and self-released it. The song – which has some lyrics in the Ethiopian Amharic language – became a hymn sung in Rastafarian services, and the album as a whole is considered a classic in the roots reggae genre.

    Accompanying the trio on this album are a few familiar names and overall cornerstones of Jamaica’s reggae scene, including:

    • the prolific and late Robbie Shakespeare on bass and Sly Dunbar on drums, who are in at least a couple other albums on The List including Sinéad O’Connor’s Throw Down Your Arms (which has a cover of this album’s “Y Mas Gan”) and to-be-spotlit Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Tyrone Downie on keyboards, who the year previous appeared on Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey and then also in 1976 would make his recording debut as part of Bob Marley & The Wailers on Rastaman Vibration (we’ll hear from Downie again when we get to our spotlights on the live Babylon By Bus, as well as Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Earl “Chinna” Smith on guitars, who was also on Marcus Garvey and Rastaman Vibration, as well as on the to-be-spotlit Lee Perry’s The Upsetters Super Ape and Augustus Pablo’s King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown;
    • plus Mikey “Boo” Richards and Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace (drums), Val Douglas (bass), Mikey Chung (guitars), Geoffrey Chung (keyboards), Jerome Francique and Llewellyn Chang (horns), and Clive Hunt (keyboards, horns, flute) (some or all of whom probably are also hiding elsewhere on The List, for all I know).

    If you’re into dub versions as I am, make sure you also check out Satta Dub (1998) and its Deluxe Expanded Edition (2017).

    1. Originally unofficially released in limited quantities in 1975, 1976 is considered the official release date. The album has also been released under the titles Forward On To Zion and Satta. ↩︎
    #1970s #Jamaica #music #Rastafari #reggae #RobbieShakespeare #rootsReggae #SlyDunbar #TheAbyssinians
  15. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston.

    The Abyssinians were a vocal trio of Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning. The title track of this, their debut album,[1] was originally recorded in 1969 for Jamaica’s renowned label Studio One but, after the producer/label owner (Clement “Coxsone” Dodd) held it back, the trio bought the master tapes and self-released it. The song – which has some lyrics in the Ethiopian Amharic language – became a hymn sung in Rastafarian services, and the album as a whole is considered a classic in the roots reggae genre.

    Accompanying the trio on this album are a few familiar names and overall cornerstones of Jamaica’s reggae scene, including:

    • the prolific and late Robbie Shakespeare on bass and Sly Dunbar on drums, who are in at least a couple other albums on The List including Sinéad O’Connor’s Throw Down Your Arms (which has a cover of this album’s “Y Mas Gan”) and to-be-spotlit Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Tyrone Downie on keyboards, who the year previous appeared on Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey and then also in 1976 would make his recording debut as part of Bob Marley & The Wailers on Rastaman Vibration (we’ll hear from Downie again when we get to our spotlights on the live Babylon By Bus, as well as Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Earl “Chinna” Smith on guitars, who was also on Marcus Garvey and Rastaman Vibration, as well as on the to-be-spotlit Lee Perry’s The Upsetters Super Ape and Augustus Pablo’s King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown;
    • plus Mikey “Boo” Richards and Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace (drums), Val Douglas (bass), Mikey Chung (guitars), Geoffrey Chung (keyboards), Jerome Francique and Llewellyn Chang (horns), and Clive Hunt (keyboards, horns, flute) (some or all of whom probably are also hiding elsewhere on The List, for all I know).

    If you’re into dub versions as I am, make sure you also check out Satta Dub (1998) and its Deluxe Expanded Edition (2017).

    1. Originally unofficially released in limited quantities in 1975, 1976 is considered the official release date. The album has also been released under the titles Forward On To Zion and Satta. ↩︎
    #1970s #Jamaica #music #Rastafari #reggae #RobbieShakespeare #rootsReggae #SlyDunbar #TheAbyssinians
  16. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston.

    The Abyssinians were a vocal trio of Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning. The title track of this, their debut album,[1] was originally recorded in 1969 for Jamaica’s renowned label Studio One but, after the producer/label owner (Clement “Coxsone” Dodd) held it back, the trio bought the master tapes and self-released it. The song – which has some lyrics in the Ethiopian Amharic language – became a hymn sung in Rastafarian services, and the album as a whole is considered a classic in the roots reggae genre.

    Accompanying the trio on this album are a few familiar names and overall cornerstones of Jamaica’s reggae scene, including:

    • the prolific and late Robbie Shakespeare on bass and Sly Dunbar on drums, who are in at least a couple other albums on The List including Sinéad O’Connor’s Throw Down Your Arms (which has a cover of this album’s “Y Mas Gan”) and to-be-spotlit Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Tyrone Downie on keyboards, who the year previous appeared on Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey and then also in 1976 would make his recording debut as part of Bob Marley & The Wailers on Rastaman Vibration (we’ll hear from Downie again when we get to our spotlights on the live Babylon By Bus, as well as Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Earl “Chinna” Smith on guitars, who was also on Marcus Garvey and Rastaman Vibration, as well as on the to-be-spotlit Lee Perry’s The Upsetters Super Ape and Augustus Pablo’s King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown;
    • plus Mikey “Boo” Richards and Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace (drums), Val Douglas (bass), Mikey Chung (guitars), Geoffrey Chung (keyboards), Jerome Francique and Llewellyn Chang (horns), and Clive Hunt (keyboards, horns, flute) (some or all of whom probably are also hiding elsewhere on The List, for all I know).

    If you’re into dub versions as I am, make sure you also check out Satta Dub (1998) and its Deluxe Expanded Edition (2017).

    1. Originally unofficially released in limited quantities in 1975, 1976 is considered the official release date. The album has also been released under the titles Forward On To Zion and Satta. ↩︎
    #1970s #Jamaica #music #Rastafari #reggae #RobbieShakespeare #rootsReggae #SlyDunbar #TheAbyssinians
  17. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana (1976, Jamaica)

    Our next spotlight is on number 442 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston.

    The Abyssinians were a vocal trio of Bernard Collins and brothers Donald and Lynford Manning. The title track of this, their debut album,[1] was originally recorded in 1969 for Jamaica’s renowned label Studio One but, after the producer/label owner (Clement “Coxsone” Dodd) held it back, the trio bought the master tapes and self-released it. The song – which has some lyrics in the Ethiopian Amharic language – became a hymn sung in Rastafarian services, and the album as a whole is considered a classic in the roots reggae genre.

    Accompanying the trio on this album are a few familiar names and overall cornerstones of Jamaica’s reggae scene, including:

    • the prolific and late Robbie Shakespeare on bass and Sly Dunbar on drums, who are in at least a couple other albums on The List including Sinéad O’Connor’s Throw Down Your Arms (which has a cover of this album’s “Y Mas Gan”) and to-be-spotlit Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Tyrone Downie on keyboards, who the year previous appeared on Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey and then also in 1976 would make his recording debut as part of Bob Marley & The Wailers on Rastaman Vibration (we’ll hear from Downie again when we get to our spotlights on the live Babylon By Bus, as well as Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing;
    • Earl “Chinna” Smith on guitars, who was also on Marcus Garvey and Rastaman Vibration, as well as on the to-be-spotlit Lee Perry’s The Upsetters Super Ape and Augustus Pablo’s King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown;
    • plus Mikey “Boo” Richards and Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace (drums), Val Douglas (bass), Mikey Chung (guitars), Geoffrey Chung (keyboards), Jerome Francique and Llewellyn Chang (horns), and Clive Hunt (keyboards, horns, flute) (some or all of whom probably are also hiding elsewhere on The List, for all I know).

    If you’re into dub versions as I am, make sure you also check out Satta Dub (1998) and its Deluxed Expanded Edition (2017).

    1. Originally unofficially released in limited quantities in 1975, 1976 is considered the official release date. The album has also been released under the titles Forward On To Zion and Satta. ↩︎
    #1970s #Jamaica #music #Rastafari #reggae #RobbieShakespeare #rootsReggae #SlyDunbar #TheAbyssinians
  18. Isto é basicamente um dos maiores clássicos do reggae/dub. Imagino que seria o som típico que passaria às 3h da manhã numa rádio pirata do Algarve em meados dos anos 80, direccionada para a comunidade britânica, para ouvir enquanto se viam ao longe os barcos vindos de Marrocos carregados de droga a chegar às praias ;-)

    week-end.bandcamp.com/album/pl

    #Dub #Reggae #RootsReggae #LoversRock

  19. Isto é basicamente um dos maiores clássicos do reggae/dub. Imagino que seria o som típico que passaria às 3h da manhã numa rádio pirata do Algarve em meados dos anos 80, direccionada para a comunidade britânica, para ouvir enquanto se viam ao longe os barcos vindos de Marrocos carregados de droga a chegar às praias ;-)

    week-end.bandcamp.com/album/pl

    #Dub #Reggae #RootsReggae #LoversRock

  20. Isto é basicamente um dos maiores clássicos do reggae/dub. Imagino que seria o som típico que passaria às 3h da manhã numa rádio pirata do Algarve em meados dos anos 80, direccionada para a comunidade britânica, para ouvir enquanto se viam ao longe os barcos vindos de Marrocos carregados de droga a chegar às praias ;-)

    week-end.bandcamp.com/album/pl

    #Dub #Reggae #RootsReggae #LoversRock

  21. Isto é basicamente um dos maiores clássicos do reggae/dub. Imagino que seria o som típico que passaria às 3h da manhã numa rádio pirata do Algarve em meados dos anos 80, direccionada para a comunidade britânica, para ouvir enquanto se viam ao longe os barcos vindos de Marrocos carregados de droga a chegar às praias ;-)

    week-end.bandcamp.com/album/pl

    #Dub #Reggae #RootsReggae #LoversRock

  22. Isto é basicamente um dos maiores clássicos do reggae/dub. Imagino que seria o som típico que passaria às 3h da manhã numa rádio pirata do Algarve em meados dos anos 80, direccionada para a comunidade britânica, para ouvir enquanto se viam ao longe os barcos vindos de Marrocos carregados de droga a chegar às praias ;-)

    week-end.bandcamp.com/album/pl

    #Dub #Reggae #RootsReggae #LoversRock