The Wailers, live, Los Angeles, 1973* ********** lagniappe musical thoughts Music comes up more often in my work as a criminal defense lawyer than you might think. Recently I devoted a lot of time to a case involving a Jamaican guy, a sweet-tempered 64-year-old Rasta, who was charged with a federal immigration offense. It helped a [...]
Archive for the ‘reggae’ category
Thursday, 12/29/11
12/28/2011more favorites from the past year Dub shows aren’t an everyday thing in Chicago, so last night, despite the weather (rain) and weariness (from traveling to see a client in prison), I ventured out to a club to catch this guy. A show like this isn’t just an aural experience: each beat of the bass [...]
Thursday, 11/17/11
11/17/2011three takes “Now That We Found Love” (AKA “Now That We’ve Found Love”) (K. Gamble & L. Huff) take 1 Heavy D (AKA Dwight Arrington Myers), May 24, 1967-November 8, 2011 Heavy D & the Boyz, 1991 ***** take 2 O’Jays, 1973 ***** take 3 Third World, live
Tuesday, 9/20/11
09/20/2011Life thickens as you get older, becoming more layered. The other night, for instance, listening to Mad Professor dub Bob Marley at a club on Chicago’s south side (Reggie’s, State near Cermak), I found it hard not to think of another night over thirty years ago, of another club on the other side of town [...]
Monday, 9/19/11
09/19/2011Dub shows aren’t an everyday thing in Chicago, so last night, despite the weather (rain) and weariness (from traveling to see a client in prison), I ventured out to a club to catch this guy. A show like this isn’t just an aural experience: each beat of the bass vibrates your ribcage. Mad Professor (AKA Neil [...]
Tuesday, 1/25/11
01/25/2011three takes Is this—the new cover—great? Maybe, maybe not. No matter—I, uh (to dip into the aging hipster’s lexicon), dig it. “Is This Love” (Bob Marley) Corinne Bailey Rae Take 1: recording, 2010 *** Take 2: live, Los Angeles, 2010 *** Bob Marley Take 3: live, Santa Barbara, 1979 More Bob Marley? Here.
Thursday, 1/13/11
01/13/2011Talking with a Jamaican-born client, I mention Gregory Isaacs’ passing. He responds, “He died too?” Sugar Minott, May 25, 1956-July 10, 2010 1983:”Rough Ole Life (Babylon),” Reggae Sunsplash, Jamaica ***** 2009: Rehearsal, Lovers Rock Gala Awards, England “Lovers Rock” *** “Good Thing Going” More? Here (Sugar Minott Memorial Broadcast, WKCR-FM).
Tuesday, 11/9/10
11/09/2010Gregory Isaacs, July 15, 1951-October 25, 2010 [Gregory Isaacs' friend and former manager Don Hewitt] said of Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones that when he was introduced to Mr. Isaacs, “he carried on like he’d met Jesus.” *** In a 2001 interview, Mr. Isaacs reflected on his legacy. “Look at me as a man [...]
Saturday, 10/9/10
10/09/2010If you ain’t losing, you’re winning. That’s something I’ve always believed, as a criminal defense lawyer, and it’s something that may be going through the mind of this guy, whose federal trial in Tampa, on drug charges, recently ended in a hung jury and mistrial. He’d been charged with trying to buy five kilos of [...]
Saturday, 9/25/10
09/25/2010I’ll take some of whatever he’s having. Hylton The Whistler Brown, Reggae Radio Show, 2007 ********** lagniappe radio gems: sounds of Jamaica (reggae, rocksteady, ska) Eastern Standard Time WKCR-FM New York (Columbia University) Saturday, 6-10 a.m. (EST) (archived shows)
