On the topic of reggae and youtube, please check out this interview of Lee Scratch from SXSW '07. This guys exists on a different plane. The end of the interview is priceless.
I stumbled across Joe Gibbs today, an early reggae artist and profound influence on the sound of Bob Marley and the Wailers. Jimmy Cliff, where Sitting Here In Limbo is from, called him the "Father of Reggae". It's not often that one finds true heartfelt music, and I think i just found a winner. I just got his 1975 album, Life Is A Contradiction.
You can check it out HERE and read reviews HERE and HERE.
I must say, it's very honest music... full of hopeful tunes and real songs about heartbreak and love. It's just very honest, and the band is so cohesive it couldn't mesh together any better.
Check out the youtube video above. Don't let the mismatched audio and video distract you. Listen to his voice and appreciate the depth and lyrics. Sometimes the album sounds like soulful old-school R&B, sometimes straight roots reggae, and sometimes it has a swing to it.
This is definitely a find, dig into it. Send me an instant message and I'll send you the album.
here's a prototype for the cover of my berlin wall book. we'll see what it ends up looking like. it's called "THE ART STOPS HERE" because only one side of the wall was free... so one side was covered with graffiti and the other side was blank because you would be shot. we'll see what the final version ends up looking like... this might take a couple weeks to finish but it's going to ROCK!
Mother's Day 2019: pre-baby stuff
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UPDATE Oct 2019 - Our little NOTbaby is 4 months old now! For those who
have asked, I’ve put together a NOTbaby List of products that have worked
out well ...
