Tuesday, January 5, 2010
065 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio presents The Steve Barrow Special - Part 1
Download Now
|
|
Podcast Episode Summary
Steve Barrow has been collecting Jamaican music since 1962, before most people called Ska..... Ska!
Over the years Steve's interest in Jamaican music has developed from collecting through to writing for Black Echoes, running his own record stores, compiling records for Island, Trojan, and his own label Blood and Fire records. He co-wrote the Rough Guide To Reggae, a bible for all Jamaican music fans. Amongst his close friends are people like Bunny Lee, Dennis Alcapone, Glen Brown, Lopez Walker, U-Roy and Trinity. He's even recorded a toilet for Lee 'Scratch' Perry! He's currently writing sleeve notes for Soul Jazz records and an upcoming release of some Dancehall Reggae music, related to Beth Kingston's book 'Dancehall' that Soul Jazz brought out last year.
Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio had the honour of travelling up country to join Steve and his partner Sue at their house in Forest Gate, London, for an afternoon of chat, record playing, tea and biscuits. The ensuing interview spread over 4 hours of recording and will be presented in a number of parts for you to listen to. This is part 1. His insight and experience makes for essential listening for all Jamaican music fans. I know I learnt more from him in 5 hours than I have on my own in 5 years!
Background music comes from Blood and Fire releases.
Here is part - 1
The tracks included on this episode for your listening pleasure are:
Derrick Morgan - Sea Wave
Early B - History Of Jamaica
Shabba Ranks - Respect
Ronnie Davis - Change The System + Dubwise
Lloyd Charmers - Travelling On (Organ Cut to the Marvells 'Rocksteady')
Delroy Wilson - What Is Man + Dubwise
Barrington Spence - Don't Touch I Dread + Dubwise
Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio really needs your help. It costs to get this show out to you. It doesn't have to be a lot! Just look down the right hand side of the homepage for the show, There's a Paypal button there Yunno?! You guys are what keeps this show going!
Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio is getting more and more popular,..... downloads are way up... check out the Facebook group Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio, it's got 660+ members, all chatting about Reggae.
Becoming a fan of the show helps get it out to more people you can do so here:~
http://www.podomatic.com/profile/fan/bigmikeydread
Don't forget you can find me on FACEBOOK and on Myspace, and if you want friends to find the show, just tell them to type 'Bigmikeydread' into Google and click the link to my podomatic page....
Respects - Mikey
|
About Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio Podcast
|