Curlews piping in over my head on solstice eve, and it's light outside until midnight here. Nature does its thing and the Big Wheel keeps on turning. We are all tentatively peering forward into this Covid future, thinking when will the lockdown and social distancing ever end? Not so long ago those things weren't even things! We did manage a party in a field at Buttermere a few weeks ago and it was so grand! My first time playing out in nearly two years. Bringing you the positive vibes then, here is episode 25 of my online reggae oddyssey. No theme - just a stream of musical consiousness. I choose a starting point and go where the tunes take me. This is a bumper set, running to over two hours in the end. All from vinyl stored under optimum conditions in the vaults here at Little Rocket Towers. I hope you enjoy listening to it. Share the link, buy the records, send me requests / feedback / stories. Follow me to download the set. And stay blessed. Hugging is now allowed - yay!!

I took the picture above of Little Roy on stage at the Lambeth County Show in 2016.

Tunes as follows;

Travelling Man - The Techniques (Treasure Isle 7”)
Dreads Leaving Babylon - The Supersonics (Treasure Isle 7”)
Don’t Stay Away - Phillis Dillon & U-Roy (Treasure Isle 7”)
Love Is A Treasure - Freddie McKay & Scotty (Treasure Isle 7”)
Going - Freddie McKay (Jamaican Recordings 10”)
Pretty Fi True / Version - Junior Byles (The Upsetter Years LP)
Wooden Heart / To The Fields - Larry Marshall & Roland Alphonso (Prince Buster 10”)
Throw Mi Corn - Larry Marshall (Studio One 7”)
Pirate - Jim Brown & Rapper Robert (Studio One 7”)
Oh Mr DC - Sugar Minott (Studio One LP)
The Pressure - Jim Brown (Studio One 12”)
Pressure Rock - Reuben Alexander (Studio One 12”)
Shaking Up Orange Street - Prince Buster (Fabulous 7”)
Doctorman Skank - Carlton Pitterson & King Tubby (Black & White 7”)
Yesterday / Version - Freddie McKay (Creation LP)
Duppy Conquerer version - The Wailers (Soul Rebel II LP)
Duppy Conquerer - The Wailers (Burnin’ LP)
Run Baldhead Run - The Itals (Brutal Out Deh LP)
Moulding - I Jah Man (JahManI 12”)
Genesis 1:11 - The Revolutionaries (Don’t Underestimate The Force LP)
Spar Withe Me - Ranking Toyan (Toyan LP)
Every Posse Want Toyan - Ranking Toyan (DJ Daddy LP)
Dry Up Your Tears - Tinga Stewart (King Tubbys Firehouse Revolution LP)
Dry Up Your Tears - Winston Francis (Mungo’s HiFi Remix - Prince Fatty)
Shadow Dub - Holly Cook & Prince Fatty (Presenting Holly Cook in Dub LP)
Curious - Little Roy & Prince Fatty (Survival Of The Fattest LP)
Christopher Columbus - Little Roy (Copasetic 12”)
All I Have Is Love - Gregory Isaacs (Faith 7”)
Blackbird Singing - The Paragons & Rosalyn Sweat (Treasure Isle LP)
Sweet Talking - The Heptones (Night Food LP)

Little Rocket Hi Fi