Just some notes from the Green Room of a popular day time talk show One of the great gifts of these trips abroad is perspective. It is fascinating to sit in a waiting room for a popular daytime television show and hear how notable Jamaicans process American tragedies that effect them because they all have …
AND THIS HAPPENED: Before we went on National TV, Red Rose asked me who I had sent ‘Free Your Mind’ to, because the biggest radio station in Jamaica played the song. A friend of our publicist Susan Smith was sent a voice note of our song playing on the station. We had previewed the song …
I am going to be dropping a bunch of great videos today, because tomorrow I leave for Port Antonio with Lenni I-Music for the final stage of this second Jamaican mission. The comfort of Wi-Fi will be out of my reach. My trip truly began with Ras Isachar at Roots 96.1 FM. I wish I got to spend …
I am going to be dropping a bunch of great videos today, because tomorrow I leave for Port Antonio with Lenni I-Music for the final stage of this second Jamaican mission. The comfort of Wi-Fi will be out of my reach. My trip truly began with Ras Isachar at Roots 96.1 FM. I wish I got to spend …
This is how you cut a Jelly. You just need a small sword. This is what Cocunut water is supposed to taste like. How do feel about our song ‘Free Your Mind’ blasting on the block in Kingston? (Video is below.) I am just along for the ride man. Jamaica gonna’ do what Jamaica is …
Drones of Jamaica: This is my first music video with drones. We actually had to move down the road from our ideal location because the drone’s wifi was disabled being closer to an airport than we realized. Mario, pictured on the left mentioned that they once didn’t realize they were flying too close to the …
My Jamaican number is 876.498.4012. Let’s see if I can keep this number till I return, given the rat maze it takes to keep your number from returning to the Great Digital Spirit in the corporate sky. If I go online once a month and purchase 100 Jamaican dollars of credit every month, my number …
Tonight I entered the Lair of The Cowboy. I promised folks like Lee Gillette that I would find the heart of Country music in Jamaica. As fate would have it, a new friend of mine wanted me to meet The Cowboy, Kingston’s very own Country singer. It’s pronounced Coe Boy, like Seattle guitarist Andy Coe. …
Want to join me behind the scenes on a BBC TV program? Today I met BBC presenter David Rodigan and Beanie Man, as Anthony Red Rose introduced me and the news of our ‘Free Your Mind’ to the Big Yard. I also got to see a stripped down and poignant performance from a deserved darling …
This video is Earl Chinna Smith and his Nyabinghi Orchestra playing to the sunrise for their dear friend Bob Marley at his birthplace in a remote Jamaican village called Nine Mile, on February 6, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of Marley’s birth. It’s surreal that I am friends with these folks. Mr. Oliver Simms channels the …
I had so much fun in the studio with Owen Bassie, Wrong Turn, and Kirk Bennette. Yes one of the top keyboardists in Jamaica is named Wrong Turn. He got his knickname from King Tubby. But the first time I met Wrong Turn, it was when I first slipped into a Sly Dunbar session last …
I am trying to upload the greatest video clip from Nine Mile. But how about me hanging out with Prince Allah right now? We are having a nice long chat, but I had two minutes left on my phone. Legends everywhere. You wake up and legends chillin’. Time to level up. Owen Baddie liked my …
I have a good story about my first radio interview with Anthony Red Rose. We were at KLAS Sports Radio in Kingston with DeeJay Cat. I was still pretty exhausted from the trip to Nine Mile and I had a lot of weighing on my mind at that moment, but I had to bring that A game. I …
Rode to Nine Mile on a bus full of Bob’s old friends. Ska era Wailers blasting. The sky was still black. Once I get on Wi-Fi, I have some pretty incredible video to show you from the sun rising and drums and voices raging at Nine Mile. Lenni I-Music and I had to be at Chinna’s …
I have so much to tell you about Trench Town. Let me just start by telling you I showed the kids of 3rd street my songs and they were singing along to the hooks and improvising guitar solos I challenges them to take one out for a rip. And it was actually a really nice …
I have so much to tell you about Trench Town. Let me just start by telling you I showed the kids of 3rd street my songs and they were singing along to the hooks and improvising guitar solos I challenges them to take one out for a rip. And it was actually a really nice …
Only a Trump Presidency could create a political environment where MoveOn.org and leftist street demonstrators will rally to defend a former head of the FBI and a Republican. Please pause and just meditate for a moment how f_cking insane Trump has made our everyday reality. Because I am a huge fan of Robert Mueller and …
I am playing on Roots FM and getting interviewed… Things you learn live on the air. Selecta (Ras Isachar) introduces me to Kingston as a friend of Jamaica and the left handed guitar player then plays “No Woman No Cry.” Is this the real life? This just happened: I just played 3 songs live on …
Confession: my plan is to be a local musician, all over the world. It seems pretty obvious but it is a major shift. One of the positives of the internet among many disastrous developments is that I can be a positive grass roots influence on scenes and people in great music towns like Brighton and …
I am not well informed about the Crime Wave that has descended upon Montego Bay as of late. An enigmatic and controversial figure in this struggle to keep Mo Bay open for business and safe for tourists is the retired Crime Fighter Reneto Adams He is a Wild West type figure that created the perception …
You might want to stay tuned the next three weeks on my return to Jamaica. I spent every day since my return getting ready to go back, and I am still not ready. How could I be? This cover represents what happened on my first dance with Jam Rock. It was like a novel about …
JAMAICA UPDATE: Man I just got a call from Lenni I-Music in Jamaica. Send this dude some friend requests. This is a friend that I want to be rolling around Kingdston with. He’s such a SOLID dude and damn good singer and songwriter. This ain’t no side kick talk. I am lucky to be his …
I just sent Bluejay Hankins my Anthony Red Rose-produced single ‘Free Your Mind’ to have Reggaeville premier. This is biggest raggae website, this song features Sly & Robbie and Lenky Marsden, the man behind Sean Paul’s ‘Get Busy’. I have spent the last year working with Anthony Red Rose as he crafted one of my …
Well my Jamaica tour got more exciting. It’s going to be a story. I am rolling with some good dudes when I sing in Trenchtown, and the crew I am shooting the ‘Free Your Mind’ video with are the legends. But why does it have to pop off right now? Jamaica is always going to …
Burning Spear is that rare performer whose real name, Winston Rodney, was better– or at least as good— than his incendiary stage name. I would give my left nut to be named Winston Rodney today. Take a listen to this 1977 Spear tune recorded for Social Living. The rhythm section is one for the ages. …
Here’s the bio Brains Gad requested to promote our shows in Jamaica: Seattle songwriter Davin Michael Stedman is best known as the lead singer of The Staxx Brothers. His work with the emerging British act Sherlock Soul is also presently garnering him acclaim. But it his work in Jamaica as an emerging solo artist that …
Chi Ching Ching is this generation’s brightest talent combining his strengths: dance and vocal performance. He is gearing up for his 2018 debut album Turning Tables and dropped the LP’s first single “Rock Di World” on Friday, Dec 15th, 2017.
Tadej Tadiman Tratnik is one of the more intriguing reggae artists I met in Kingston, Jamaica. He definitely stood out Inna di Yard at Chinna’s place. Though this world had signs of diversity, from a Japanese Rasta that smoked but never spoke to an esteemed professor from Berkeley, Tadej found a way to blend in …
Just in case you didn’t see this today: JOHN LYDON’S TOP OF THE POPS ROOTS REGGAE PICKS: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/john_lydons_top_of_the_pops_roots_reggae_picks/ It’s been interesting to read in the Keith Richards book how very deep into reggae he was/is too. Of course, I knew about Peter Tosh opening for The Stones, living in Keith’s house, and Keith’s pad in …