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12 March 2026
The Mighty Tom Cats
Soul Makossa
(1974)
320
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Harlem Underground Band
Harlem Underground
(1976)
320
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Satan and Adam
Mother Mojo
(1993)
320
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Adam Gussow
Kick and Stomp
(2014)
320
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Samantha Fish
Chills & Fever
(2017)
320
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11 March 2026
Various - Box Of Vibes No. 26 (C-R-A) (2026) 320
* Just remembered I had this to post, we have had a busy weekend, bands to see and family thing yesterday, two bands Friday night, then an hour drive to see two singer songwriters on Saturday night. Then a trip to a museum and lunch with my 5 year old Niece. So had to edit a tag on one track, missed it when these were first compiled, but is very easily fixed. *
* Because we compiled these home made comps some time ago, I forget what is on every edition, so while I surf the net today, I will listen again!! *
* This week we post Box Of Vibes (BOV) number 26, which is started by Concha's tracks 1 to 8, then my (Reb) selections from 9 to 16 and then Andy's tunes close the box with tracks 17 to 24. *
* As always a great mix of music from many decades, genres, with cover, alternative and remastered version of songs, some of which you might already know, but hopefully some will be new to you and inspire you to go look for more music from your discovery. *
*I said last week maybe, you the visitors of Vibes could contribute tracks for a special edition for BOV 50, been thinking and once we post Box 40, I will make a post and any of you can suggestion a couple of tracks to be included, all you will need to do I add the artist and track titles onto this post via a comment, I will then find the tracks, I don't have them Concha or Andy will, or will search for a copy. So maybe it would make it easier to track the track down if you include which album the song is taken from, as there are many different versions of the same song by artists. If a lot of tracks are submitted, I will make a double edition. So This will be posted about the middle of June, and will give me 10 weeks to compile them and sort a running order. Hopefully some of you will take the time to submit tracks for BOV 50, of one last thing can you also add your name to the comment once you suggest your selections, so we can add your names on the BOV 50 post. *
* Please feel free to add a comment to this post saying if you like to or don't, and the reason why (just out of interest) any feed back positive or negative is most welcome. *
* BOV 27 will be posted next Monday, if I don't forget again, I do like to listen before posting that all is ok, but just haven't got the time this weekend, sorry, but they were all checked when they were originally compiled, so am sure all will be ok.*
* Thanks again to Andy & Concha for their time spent selecting the tunes and making a running order for their selections. *
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Reb
Tradition – High Risk Dub (1980 reissue) 256
* Final share from me today from my to post folder as well, trying to get all that's in there posted. *
* This is a re-release of Tradition In Dub by popular demands in 1980, with different title "High Risk Dub" and track names, both albums have 10 tracks, all that changed was the album title and the tracks titles. *
* Be warned this album comes as 256 *
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Unknown Artist – From Kongo To Zion - Black Music Traditions Of Jamaica (1983) 320
* Discogs *
* Another that been sitting in the to post folder for far too long, sees the light*
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Various – Reggae Up! 40 Classic Reggae Cuts (1996) 320
* Another from my to post folder escapes, think it's been in there for 6 months *
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2018 - Johnny Clarke - Creation Rebel
2018 - Johnny Clarke - Creation Rebel (Flac)
Singer Johnny Clarke occupies a special place in the hearts of roots reggae fans and his countless 45s, 12″ extended mixes and albums are non-negotiable items in any self-respecting reggae collectors treasure trove of sounds. This anthology follows on from the 1998 Blood and Fire 2 LP/CD set that assembled some of the greatest of Clarke’s collaborative work with the producer Bunny Lee, including many of those tracks, and is crammed full of wonderful songs, thirty in total, that remain as evergreen anthems to the roots era. What is sometimes overlooked is how young Johnny Clarke actually was when he cut some of these immortal sides. By 1975, he was only twenty years old, yet the voice had already matured and the hits singles flowed as a consequence.
A second aspect that now stands out is Clarke’s interest in and commitment to the African diaspora and related themes related. While opposing the Apartheid regime in South Africa and all it stood for, Johnny Clarke has regularly toured there over the decades and, in the process, become one of the most popular of reggae stars in Africa, rivalling home-grown acts on that continent such as Alpha Blondy, Lucky Dube, and not forgetting the undisputed King of francophone African reggae, Tikhen Jah Fakoly from Ivory Coast. Clarke was equally attuned to what was happening in US soul music in the 1970s, as evidenced by the use of a Philly International All Stars classic rhythm, ‘Let’s clean up the ghetto’, redeployed as the backing ‘riddim’ to ‘Peace And Love In The Ghetto’, and that bass line is a mighty potent musical weapon at his disposal. Another killer rhythm comes in the shape of ‘Blood Dunza’, while the steppers tune, ‘Jah Love Is With I’, features some lovely percussive work, a dub section, complete with breakdown here in a lengthier 12″ version. Arguably, one of the finest of all the songs he composed is, ‘King In The Arena’, and it is indeed one of the most reworked of all reggae ‘riddims’, while that African connection is celebrated on ‘Roots Natty Congo’, and on ‘African People’, with a daunting tale of forced repatriation. A nyabinghi drum intro to, ‘Time Will Tell’, adds a natural Afro-Jamaican flavour to the mix, while the spoken intro to, ‘Fire Brimstone A Go Burn The Wicked’, leaves the listener in no doubt that lyrics count. For a stunning example of vocal roots that is enhanced by an instrumental dub section, look no further than the aforementioned and here extended version of ‘Peace and love in the ghetto’, while for repetitive chorus line, rocking drums and catchy keyboards of ‘Dread A Dread’ is another compelling number. (UKVibe)
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Various Artists
Taste of Putumayo Music
Music for Every Palate
(2006)
320
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Various Artists
Putumayo Kids Presents
Hawaiian Playground
(2008)
320
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Various Artists
Putumayo presents
Latin Beat
(2012)
320
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Various Artists
Putumayo Presents
Vintage Italia
(2017)
320
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10 March 2026
2022 - Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony
2022 - Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony @320
The Larkin Poe story goes back to 2010, when they released four beautiful and distinctive seasons-related EPs, displaying the Lovell sisters Rebecca and Megan’s rich, absorbing vocal harmonies, slippery slide guitar work and a winning with with crunchy blues-rock riffs. They’ve released five albums since then, and Blood Harmony is, for the Georgia-born siblings, a musical homecoming to the sultry humidity of the American South of their musical and familial roots. The cover art looks like a Seventies vintage that’s been hauled around in a crate ever since, and that decade spreads its own aura through the music too.
Album opener “Deep Stays Down” sees the sisters set their stall with a lean, seductive and irresistible guitar riff set to an ominous bass drum rhythm and their own subtle harmonies, with heavy rock guitars and hard rock vocals bursting out of their trousers out at the 2.30 mark, and the rock-out feel extends to the heavy Southern blues-rock of “Bad Spell”.
Their 2018 set, Venom & Faith was a Grammy Award nominee for Best Contemporary Blues Album, and on the strength of its best tracks, Blood Harmony could well be in the running for another nomination at least. Recorded at Rebecca and her husband Tyler Bryant’s home studio, with Megan’s husband on keys, and with longtime stage band members Kevin McGowan on drums and Tarka Layman on bass, the album is truly a family affair.
The title song is all about ties that bind – specifically, the memory of the sisters singing with their mother at the family piano – set to a twin guitar riff so slinky and tight it could shed itself like a snake’s skin and slip off into the underworld. The twin harmonies and twin guitars seem to cross-talk with each other, McGowan’s drums and Layman’s bass spreading some ground from which the Lovell sisters take flight through an amalgam of rock, blues, gospel and soul, with lyrics that seem to have been sweated out of the music, as on the crunchy blues riffing of “Kick the Blues” or “Summertime Sunset”, sporting a vicious hard-rock guitar line that would make Malcolm Young proud. They close with the more ethereal, hazy and reflective “Lips as Cold as a Diamond” which takes a fairly sombre look at death, as each of us must do, since death is an intimate member of everybody’s bloodline.
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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Devil's Night Out
(1990)
320
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Josh Ritter
Golden Age of Radio
(2000)
320
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