From the album, "Blues Grass Kicks Ass".
Vocals, harmonica and banjo by D. Wilson.
Backing vocals by I. Aldred.

Meter Fairy Man (written By D.Wilson)

All songs written and performed by Jesus Sons.
Produced by Rob Good.
Recorded at The Cave in El Segundo, CA.

Guitar/Harmonica/Vox - Brandon Wurtz
Bass/Vox - Erik Lake
Guitar/Harmonica - Shannon Dean
Guitar/Organ/Percussion - Bert Hoover
Drums - Chance Welton

Additional Players:
Wurlitzer - Elvis Kuehn (Courtesy of Mom + Pop)

Randy's Blues

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Watch the official music video here: https://youtu.be/JFS5HCBrSr0

Get ready for an 80’s dancehall / roots revival with this killer release from Queens, NY’s new Rock Steady dons, The Frightnrs. This four piece ensemble have taken the cooled out vintage vibes of Jamaican Rock Steady, combined it with the raw energy and vocal stylings of 80’s Rub A Dub and added a touch of punk rock spirit to create an entirely unique sound that redefines what a reggae band can sound like. They recently broke through with a soaring cover of Etta James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind” on NY’s esteemable Daptone Records, and have now give us this great 5 track EP for Mad Decent. The Daptone connection should give you an idea of the genuine sound we’re dealing with here- this is the real deal vintage vibes, polished into a beautiful roughness by longtime NY producer Victor “Ticklah” Axelrod. Like Diplo says, “Close your eyes and get transported to Kingston Jamaica 1981.”

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Inna Lovers Quarrel

Sharon

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The Frightnrs - Sharon

This is our first song at the Project Soundlounge Festival. It's also the first performance ever of 'Snuffbox'. 

Courtesy of Live!Arts Radio who broadcast a show containing live recordings of Saturday and Sunday night at Project Soundlounge in which Natty interviews Matt Tyrer, Guy Hirst and I. It can be heard here: https://www.mixcloud.com/LiveArtsRadio/project-soundlounge-live-arts-radio/

Snuffbox (Live at Birmingham Town Hall @ Project Soundlounge)

The James Hunter Six "Hold On!" is out February 5th on Daptone Records.

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Bandcamp - https://jameshuntersix.bandcamp.com/
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The James Hunter Six - Something's Calling

From his latest album, Changes, out now. Order the album at: 

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Revelation
We’re living in
Am I dreaming?
Who is gonna protect us now?
Right back to color 
Blacks depreciate
If we’re not careful
We’ll be back segregated

Change for the better of your soul

We gotta change my love 
We gotta change for the world 
I got to give you my love
If you don’t know me by now just check yourself

I ain’t afraid to love you
See I come with open arms
Stop hiding behind religion
Hate is poison in the blood 
Heaven is crying, the world is shaking
God is unhappy, the moon is breaking
Blood is spilling, God is coming

What are you gonna do
Shout them loud. Take this love
Put away the gun and take this love
We gotta change my love 
We gotta change for the world 
I got to give you my love

Change the false pretense
Change the hate in you

We gotta change our love 
We gotta change for the world 
I got to give you my love 
Changing, changing, changing for this world
All over the world
Change

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Charles Bradley - Change For The World

The Mystery Lights' self-titled debut album is out now on Daptone Records' new rock subsidiary, WICK Records.

Order at shop.daptonerecords.com

Released by:
WICK Records / Daptone Records

Release date:
24 June 2016

The Mystery Lights - Follow Me Home

From the debut album, Nothing More To Say, available now. Order at shopdaptonerecords.com


The Frightnrs escort Daptone into the world of long-playing reggae with both the sweetest and the roughest record of the decade.

Crafted under the meticulous eye of black-belt reggae mastermind/producer Victor Axelrod (AKA Ticklah), Nothing More to Say is a rocksteady masterpiece the likes of which has not reared it’s head since the golden era of Studio One.  However, you’ll find no imitation here - none of the faux-jamaican cliches of lesser reggae bands.  Like all things Daptone, this record is above all soulful and honest. With the exception of two soul covers (both from the Daptone catalog: Bob & Gene’s "Gotta Find a Way” and Saun and Starr’s “Gonna Make Time”,) the record is populated by original compositions of the highest order.  They are simply great songs, and though their treatment here is masterful, each one of them has the melodic and lyrical substance to hold it’s own in any genre. “Till Then” invokes the coquettish hyper-rhymes of top-form Smokey Robinson, while “Hey Brother” sounds like it fell off the desk of Gamble and Huff, and “Purple” defies any comparison at all.  From the first cracking snares of “All My Tears” through the final pulsing echoes of “Dispute,” the murderous rhythms of Rich Terrana (drums,) and brothers Preet and Chuck Patel (bass and piano, respectively) can be heard chunking mercilessly towards oblivion as Dan Klein pours his endearing poetry over over the top like some other-worldy falsetto potion. The combination is a sound birthday-suit raw, mesmerizing, infectious, and above all, lovely. This record will long be treasured by lovers of reggae, lovers of soul and lovers of love.

Nothing More To Say

The Frightnrs - Nothing More To Say

“I’ll Be Around” from the new album City Club.
Available September 30, 2016 from Cult Records.

Pre-order, tour dates, news, merch and more at http://TheGrowlers.com

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City Club

I'll Be Around

As Mamas EP

Zenobia

This land is your land, This land is my land

Though it has often been co-opted as a benignly patriotic campfire sing-a-long, "This Land Is Your Land" was actually written by Woody Guthrie in 1944 as a subversive protest song in biting response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." At my sister Samra's urging, we recorded our version in 2004, during the George W. Bush presidency, in an effort to re-establish it as a song about social justice.

Ironically, when Woodie Guthrie resided in Coney Island in 1950, his landlord was none other than Donald Trump's father, the infamously racist real estate mogul Fred Trump, about whom Guthrie composed his poem "Old Man Trump," including the lines:

     I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
     He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
     When he drawed that color line
     Here at his Beach Haven family project 

Using a dark re-harmonization of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as an intro, the Dap-Kings re-arranged "This Land" as a rough blues-y march, setting the tone for Sharon to tear into the lyrics of the song with the fiery gusto of a revolutionary. However, it was the inclusion of Guthrie's rarely-heard original verses that really enabled Sharon to reclaim the song as an urgent and unambiguous demand for equality and human dignity in a nation rife with social injustice and patriotic hypocrisy.

Today, as we inaugurate a rapacious billionaire to the highest office in the land, those original verses resonate with us as loudly as the day they were written:

     There was a big high wall there
     That tried to stop me
     The sign was painted
     Said 'Private Property'
     But on the backside
     It didn't say nothing
     This land was made for you and me

     One bright sunny morning
     In the shadow of the steeple 
     By the relief office 
     I saw my people 
     As they stood hungry
     I stood there wondering 
     If God Blessed America for me

We are grateful to Woodie Guthrie and to Sharon Jones, two friends of the people and bitter foes of the Trumps, who have given us an essential soundtrack to our struggle. When times get dark, let us not crumble in fear and bigotry. Let us honor the unbreakable spirit of those tireless fighters who have fallen before us. Let us rise to the fight, and let us help each other never to forget this noble truth:

    This land was made for you and me.

-Gabe Roth