Darker Than Blue
This amazing compilation of songs is the crossing path of soul music into reggae music… reggae singers covering the songs they would hear on the radio stations in the 60s and 70s coming straight from America. With the title named track by Curtis Mayfield superbly covered by Lloyd Charmers and so many other great covers.
Highly recommended!

http://www.jimmycliff.com
The Harder They Come 1972 directed by Perry Henzell, Staring Jimmy Cliff
Wicked score featuring several tunes by Jimmy Cliff. 10/10

Osbourne Ruddock was born January 28, 1941 in Jamaica.
He died on February 6, 1989.
As a boy Osbourne developed a fascination with technical, particularly electronic things. His career as a radio and tv repairman began in the late 1950s. The nickname “Tubby” referred to his proficiency with tube amplifiers.
With the birth and growth of sound systems, came the need for an accomplished electronic repairman. One day a sound system operator approached Osbourne for help with a repair. Soon after he was repairing sound systems all over Kingston.
Osbourne spent years working on …

Fat Freddy’s Drop
“The industry will never find me. Here among the trees
My footsteps will be, will be all that I leave”
The Raft, Fat Freddy’s Drop
Fat Freddy’s Drop’s pirate soul train has seen them beat a resolutely independent path to the ears and feet of audiences around the globe for over a decade.
Formed in 1999 the Wellington seven-piece has never stuck to a script. Their sound draws inspiration from almost every part of the black music lexicon. Soul drenched vocals and jazz harmonies collide with tape delays and echo chambers, underpinned …