Click any image below to set it as your background.
;)
about 1 year ago
1040
1118
Perhaps a rather overdramatic headline, I admit, but there seems to be a decline of interest in fado amongst the younger Portuguese.More significant for this post is the possible future of Portugal's largest region, the vast area south of the River Tejo (Tagus in Spain) called the Alentejo (Pronounced Allen-tezhe). Its population density of 65 per square mile is barely one-fifth of Portugal's n...
More >
Principally known for his more acoustic Rastafarian chants, in 1975 "Ras" Michael Henry and the Sons of Negus found their way to Tommy Cowan's Talent Corporation , working at Kingston's Dynamic Studios with an electric band featuring the likes of Carlton "Santa" Davis on drums, a still teenage Robbie Shakespeare on bass, Peter Tosh on guitar and keyboards, and Geoffrey Chung and Robbie Lyn on o...
More >
Windel "Field Marshal" Haye is one of the most obscure figures in late seventies reggae. He cut three tunes for Studio One in 1979, one called "Flood Victim" on a remake of "real Rock", one called "Herb and Roots Style"on a new rhthm, that namechecked the then popular funk instrumental "Granny Scratch Scratch", and this being the other. The money he made from his brief time in the studio paid ...
More >
© 2006-2009 Mog Inc. All Rights Reserved
