All The Time

Holiday break starts... today! Sorry folks, just can't stay. No worries, I'll leave you with a good old six pack of fine fine tunes, with steady artwork as usual by Tinca. Back before you know it, my amigos da musica.

Johnny Daye - Stay Baby Stay
The Impressions - Stay Close To Me
Funkadelic - I'll Stay
Dennis Brown - Stay At Home
The Rockets - Won't You Say You Stay
Spiritualized - Stay With Me

Dive In

"Let it flow, baby..." Presenting a wet wet wet six pack for your listening pleasure. Humid artwork as usual by Tinca. Dive in and stay tuned for part 2, folks. Soon come.

Stonewall Jackson - I Washed My Hands In The Muddy Water
Clarence Reid - Like Running Water
Dennis Brown - Well Without Water
The Tweeds - Underwater Girl
Jack O'Fire - Asked For Water
Kevin Morby - Water

Weak Heart Drop

High time for some more heavy duty reggae around here, rootsmen. Clean hands and a pure heart? That's the way to go. Check out this massive ten pack of boss sounds why don't you, and set your heart free.

Prince Far I - Clean Hands Pure Heart
Cornell Campbell - I Heart Is Clean
Ronnie Davis - No Weak Heart
Dennis Brown - Set Your Heart Free
Earl Zero - City Of The Weak Heart
Johnny Osbourne - Purify Your Heart
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Junior Delgado - Blackman's Heart
Shaumark & Robinson - Weak Heart A Go Feel It
Big Youth - Lightning Flash (Weak Heart Drop)

Sisters Brothers

"Oh sister sister let me live, and all that's mine I'll surely give..." Presenting a sibling ten pack, in honour of a hilarious novel I enjoyed recently: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. Be sure to pick up a copy of this surprising western noir. And buy some albums if you like what you hear below, my amigos da musica.

Pentangle - Cruel Sister
Wild Tchoupitoulas - Brother John
Arson Garden - Two Sisters (Love All Around Them)
Dennis Brown - Together Brothers
J.J. Cale - Don't Cry Sister
Prince Far I & The Arabs - Hello Love Brother

MC5 - Sister Anne

Art Pepper - Four Brothers

Horace Silver - Sister Sadie

Bill Carter - Baby Brother

And the obvious bonus track:
F.J. McMahon - Sister Brother

Conquering Dreads

"Without love you're like a ship that's lost its anchor, lost at sea in the swirling tides..." Presenting a conquering ten pack, inna strictly roots stylee of course. Cause you just can't conquer natty dreadlocks, seen?

Prince Alla - Only Love Can Conquer MP3

The Meditations - Rasta Shall Conquer MP3

Linval Thompson - Jah Jah The Conqueror MP3

Dennis Brown - Conqueror MP3

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Duppy Conqueror MP3

Dr. Alimantado - Can't Conquer Natty Dreadlocks MP3

Stranger & Gladdy - Conqueror MP3

Yabby You - Conquering Dub MP3

Cornell Campbell - The Conquering Gorgon MP3

Aggrovators - The Conqueror MP3

No Club

Homo homini lupus and all that. Forget the pack, shed your sheep's clothing and be a lone wolf. Presenting a solitary ten pack. Howl awhile.

Howlin' Wolf - I'm The Wolf MP3

Le Loup - We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! MP3

Los Lobos - Will The Wolf Survive? MP3

Dennis Brown - Wolves And Leopards MP3

'Funny Papa' Smith - Hungry Wolf MP3

Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie Billy - The Signifying Wolf MP3

The Grateful Dead - Dire Wolf MP3

Woodpigeon - Chorus Of Wolves MP3

Joni Mitchell - The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey MP3

Lloyd & Devon - Wolf Out Deh MP3

In The Ghetto

The Kingston ghetto that is. Tough place, but also a breeding ground for remarkable vocal talent. Presenting a rather rootsy six pack.

"The youthmen down in the ghetto,

Them have to carry this heavy load..."

Sugar Minott - Ghetto-ology MP3

The Royals - Ghetto Man MP3

Dennis Brown - Ghetto Girl MP3

Jacob Miller - Ghetto On Fire MP3

Prince Alla - Youthmen In The Ghetto MP3

Big Joe - In The Ghetto MP3

Wild Weekend Vol. 6

Wild: aj. - not tamed or domesticated; not cultivated

Weekend: n. - Saturday and Sunday (as a period of rest or holiday)

iPod: t.m. - a pocket-sized device used to play music files

Shuffle: v.t. - to mix together so as to make a random order of arrangement

Yes, and here we go again... with yet another edition of Wild Weekend. Let´s kick it off with Swedish garage rockers supreme the Nomads, and their swampy Where The Wolf Bane Blooms. Saw these guys live a couple of times in the early eighties, and I can tell you their guitar player Hans Östlund was really something else. After which we slow down the tempo a bit with a smooth but still very funky piece of soul by the eccentric hypochondriac Donny Hathaway, from his classic debut Everything Is Everything (´70). "I hear voices, I see people, I hear voices of many people..."

The Nomads - Where The Wolf Bane Blooms MP3

Donny Hathaway - Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything) MP3

Time for some roots reggae now. One of Jamaica´s finest vocalists - Bob Marley even called him the best reggae singer in the world at some stage - Dennis Brown scored many a hit on the island. Deliverance Will Come, produced by the mighty Joe Gibbs, is a fine example of his powers. Next up are the Velvets, with a live track recorded back in ´69 by future Voidoids and Reed guitarist Robert Quine. Lofi they may be, but the Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes are definitely essential listening for fans of Lou and company.

Dennis Brown - Deliverance Will Come MP3

The Velvet Underground - Over You MP3

John Phillips was the brain behind the Mamas & the Papas, but I´d rather listen to his country-tinged solo album John, The Wolf King Of L.A. to be honest. A question of "subtracting the former from the latter" I suppose. And yes, that´s practically the whole Elvis band taking care of business here. And we´ll call it a day with a fine song from the obscure Marc Benno, who you may remember from his collaboration with Leon Russell in the Asylum Choir. Here he´s lost in his hometown: Austin, Texas. Attention Slowhand fans: listen closely, for that really is Clapton on guitar.

John Phillips - Let It Bleed, Genevieve MP3

Marc Benno - Lost In Austin MP3