Niney the Observer

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  Niney the Observer
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  The Reggae Box: The Routes Of Jamaican Music
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  Love Preacher

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  Niney the Observer
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  The Reggae Box: The Routes Of Jamaican Music
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  Love Preacher

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  Niney the Observer
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  Blood and Fire
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  Observing the Avenue/Everyday Music

While Jamaican musicians often looked to Brazil, Cuba and America for inspiration, not all big name African-American acts played in a style that crossed over to the Caribbean. Sly and the Family Stone, for example, were seldom played or covered in Jamaica; compared to James Brown and Isaac Hayes to name but two, their music was not widely popular.These two tracks by Winston "Niney" Holness, tho...

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  At King Tubby's - Dub Plate Specials 1973-75
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  In Love With Dub

This track credited to producer Niney The Observer and versions "A Love Between Us" by Michael Rose, who later became the singer of Black Uhuru. To my ears, the drum sound, and especially the horns, suggest that the great Jimmy Radway had something to do with this. For comparison, here is one of Jimmy Radway's dubs -http://mog.com/Baudolino/blog/149057

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  Power To The King/ Ital Correction

When this magnificent specimen walked imperiously through my garden, I just *had* to take a photograph and post it.Anyway....on to some music and todays first random pick is a stunning pair of tracks by Niney The Observer. "Power To the King" is great enough, but the B-side, where Errol T teaches his questioner the "correct" Rastafarian names for various vegetables and herbs, over a thumping bass

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