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Pioneering dee-jay, Shelly
Thunder, emerged
from dancehall reggae in the late 80's and made a splash on the
hip-hop/urban market with her wise and feisty lyrics and delivery. This
program catches the young artist in 1989, recording "Relation", at
HC&F Studios, performing at Trax and onstage receiving a Tamika
Award at the Beacon Theatre, NYC.
Performance clips:
"Kuff", "My Name
is Shelly ". Promo videos: "Break-Up" & "Working Girl". Night
Nurse reports the News and Reviews from Reggae Strong headquarters and
Jah Byron demonstrates ital cooking by preparing a meal of red pea
stew.
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Winston Rodney, reggae's elder statesman,
known worldwide as Burning Spear, has
been delivering his message of
roots and culture since 1969, and is one of conscious reggae's
preeminent Afrocentric artists. In this program, Burning
Spear is
interviewed by radio personality, Ben Mapp, while mixing tracks at
Sigma Sound Studio in NYC in 1990.
Concert clips
include original
footage of "Marcus Garvey", shot on location at Kilimanjaro, NYC, video
clips of "Great Men", "Jah No Dead", & clips from "Live in
Paris".
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Pioneering Jamaican filmmaker, Perry
Henzell
(1936-2006), co-author, director and producer of the film classic, "The
Harder They Come", is sometimes credited with introducing reggae music
to the world. Interviewed on location at his studio in
Kingston
in
1988, the program also features film clips with Jimmy Cliff, Toots and
the Maytals, Ras Daniel Hartman and scenes from "No Place Like Home",
featuring Countryman and Carl Bradshaw.
Night Nurse reports
the news
from Central Park and presents clips from Reggae Strong's party, with
Judah Eskender Tafari, Keith Thompson, Bankie Banx, Burning Brass,
Sleepy Wonder and Rocker-T.
Video spotlight: Peter Tosh:
"Johnny Be
Goode".
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One of the UK's first, finest and most versatile
reggae bands, Aswad have delivered pop
melodies and militant dubs with
equal finesse. The band's breakout 1987 hit "Don't Turn Around"
catapulted them into reggae's stratosphere, but this program documents
the down to earth trio hard at work mixing their 1990 album, "Too
Wicked" at Gussie Clark’s, Music Works Studio, in
Kingston.
The program features an on-location interview with
Brinsley Forde, Tony
Gad and Drummie Zeb. Also
included is footage of the band recording
“Hang On Baby”, with engineer, Mikey
Irish. Music
videos, "Best of My Love", "Don't Turn Around", "5446".
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Marcia Griffiths,
the queen of Jamaican
songbirds and the most consistent female hitmaker in reggae history,
began her musical career, astonishingly, enough, almost 40 years ago at
the legendary Studio One. In 1990, she recorded "Electric Boogie", and
its accompanying dance, the Electric Slide achieved "craze" status,
guaranteeing reggae at least one spot on the songlist of many a catered
affair.
In this program, shot in Hartford, CT
in1986, Griffiths
performs a medley of her early hits, including, "Melody Life", "Truly",
and "Mark My Words." Promo videos:
"All Over The World", and
"Electric
Boogie".
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A New York based reggae band whose members
hail from Jamaica, US, Trinidad & Puerto Rico, Soul
Jahs is
another conscious, roots and culture ensemble that rocked the local
scene in the late 80's & 90's. Bandleader, Paul Tulloch, is
interviewed prior to the release of the group's first Schanachie album,
“Our Time is Now".
The program includes concert footage shot
at reggae's durable Hamptons' venue, Bay Street, in 1988. Concert
clips: "Falling Leaves", “I Can’t
Take It,
“A Who".
Promo Videos:
Shinehead, "Jamaican in NY", Peter
Broggs, "Cease the War".
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Linton Kwesi Johnson,
aka, LKJ is another
legendary artist, whose contribution to Jamaican history and culture
extends far beyond music. A poet, activist, writer and member of the
Brixton-based Race Today collective, his particular focus has been the
black political struggle in England, where he's lived since age
11.
This "father of dub poetry" is interviewed
at Wetlands Preserve in NYC,
where he performs "It Noh Funny" and "Sonny's Poem" backed by
bass-maestro Dennis Bovell and the Dub
Band. Jean "Binta" Breeze, a
Jamaican-born dub poet/writer/actress and choreographer, with extensive
touring, televison and film experience performs, "Confusion". Dennis
Bovell, sings, "You Better Surrender".
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