Behold the music video for “To You“, released today from Roots Radics feat. Toots & The Maytals. The video features never-before-seen footage of the late Reggae icon Toots Hibbert, documented during one of his last recording sessions prior to his tragic death on Sept. 11, 2020 from COVID-19. Today would have been Toots’ 78th birthday. …
Earl “Chinna” Smith (born 6 August 1955), a.k.a. Earl Flute and Melchezidek the High Priest, is a Jamaican guitarist active since the late 1960s. He is most well known for his work with the Soul Syndicate band and has recorded with many reggae artists, appearing on more than 500 albums. “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” …
Here’s a great moment from five years ago. Lightning captured in a bottle. First song opens with references to Isaiah 9:6, the Bible text which, in an enormous transatlantic and cross-cultural musical coincidence, is one of the many high (and familiar) points in Handel’s Messiah.