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Can anybody name me some good reggae artists I can get in to (asides Bob marley)
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It can be quite a wide genre, are you talking newer stuff or older (ie Marley era)?
I would recommend Aswad - Live and Direct, an album I will never get tired of. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003QI3/103-9574284-5526224?v=glance
Also Buju Banton - Til Shiloh. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001E8B/103-9574284-5526224?v=glance
Trojan Records do good compilations of 60s-70s stuff.
Horace Andy
Lee Scratch Perry
Mad Professor
The Scientist
Dennis Brown
Barrington Levy
Burning Spear
Steel Pulse
Max Romeo
I'd also recommend UB40's first album "Signing Off". Maybe start with some compilations. I'd recommend the 100% Dynamite series on Soul Jazz Records, the Trojan Records box sets (especially "Punky Reggae Party") and the "Dubwise or Otherwise" compilations on Blood and Fire Records.
Songs I suggest would be Kingston town and Homley Girl. Both Fab.
http://www.sternsmusic.com/disk_info/5843212
well recommended.
Found this also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/features/reggae/ it has links to the BBCs Reggae shows.
Just meant that to look at them etc you wouldn't think. I didn't mean that just coz they're from Brum they can't be Reggae. Should have worded it better methinx. Never mind.
Lee Perry (double seven is one of my favourite albums of all time, but its rare)
Dillinger,
Julian Marley.