It's just time for some Reggae. I've been a part-time fan since the early 70s. It's always lived in the shadow of my first love — Northern Soul — but it's also always dragged back, often in the same dance hall on the same night. Today's sample is a not-very-representative cross section of the genre from the mid-1960s to the mid twenty teens. Shoals o Herrin is one of my favourites out of the MacColl stable. And it always reminds how much of MacColl's early stuff sounded like the tune came from a 50s western soundtrack. The 1959 selection has a definite whiff of 'the road to soul'. Not least, because it features a few Northern classics. It's Spanish Friday.
Reggae
- Stick By Me John Holt
- Divine Conception Skatalites
- Jamaica Jah Cure
- Groovy Situation Keith Rowe
- Shelter of Your Love Jimmy Cliff
- Don't Fence Her In Jolly Boys
- Provocation Roland Alphonso
- Stampede Don Drummond
- Viet Nam Jimmy Cliff
- Napoleon Solo Jackie Mittoo
1959
- Just A Little Bit Rosco Gordon
- Strange Things Happen James Brown
- My Baby (I Love Her, Yes I Do) Ray Charles
- Looking For My Baby Jimmy Dotson and The Blue Boys
- Since You Left Me Behind Larry Birdsong
- Private Eye Olympics
- Ride The Chariot Marv Johnson
- I've Got A Girl Major Lance
- That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) Isley Brothers
- Jack Of All Trades Eugene Church
Shoals o Herrin
- Shoals of Herring The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
- North Sea Holes John Doyle
- North Sea Holes (Come All You Gallant Fisherman) Corries
- North Sea Holes (The Fishing North Sea Holes - The Fishing) Bob Fox & Stu Luckley
- Shoals of Herring Brian Roebuck
- Shoals Of Herring Louis Killen
- Shoals Of Herring (Shoals o' Herrin) Dave Burland
- Shoals o' Herring The Exiles
- The Shoals Of Herring Ewan MacColl
- The Shoals Of Herring Luke Kelly
Spanish
- La Flor Que Anda De Mano En Mano (Remastered) Victor Jara
- Coplas al Compadre Juan Miguel (En Vivo) Alfredo Zitarrosa
- Cueca Larga Violeta Parra
- Pueblero De Alla Ite Mercedes Sosa
- Corrido A Javier Solis Atahualpa Yupanqui
- La Huillincana Aparcoa
- Los Cabezudos Los Olimareños
- La niña de Guatemala Óscar Chávez
- La Llorona Bach Yen
- Callejon Sin Salida Ramón Ayala