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Blues & Beyond #179: A Jamaican Journey - Bob & Ziggy Marley, Desmond Dekker, Judy Mowatt, Ernest Ranglin

Series: Blues & Beyond
From: WXPN
Length: 00:59:04

Jamaican Journey -- B is For Bob (Marley), Ziggy Marley, Ernest Ranglin, Judy Mowatt, Desmond Dekker -- great island sounds! Read the full description.
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On this show we'll enjoy a Jamaican journey. The album "B Is For Bob" an collection of Bob Marley songs mostly remixed and recast by his son Ziggy Marley will be our starting point. Bob Marley's music may be timeless, but son Ziggy wants to be extra sure that young people relate to it today -- thus he did the "B Is For Bob album," and also a recent children's album "Family Time" that we will also visit on this show. We'll play a famous song about Jamaica, sung by the late great rocksteady singer Desmond Dekker, and we'll hear from one of Bob Marley's teachers, the veteran Jamaican jazz guitarist Ernest Ranglin, including his own search for African roots on an album called "In Search Of The Lost Riddim." And we have a song from Judy Mowatt too -- she was a member of the I3's who sang backup for Bob Marley, and she went on to make a number of fine reggae albums in the 1980s.

promo included: promo-179

Broadcast History

WXPN-FM Philadelphia 12-6-2009 and 12-7-2009

Transcript

opening theme:
Start: 00:00 Duration: 0:59
Bert Jansch and John Renbourn "No Exit"
Wooded Hill Recordings: Bert And John
© 1996 Wooded Hill Records/Transatlantic Records Ltd
HILLCD8

Start: 01:14 Duration: 4:44
Steel Pulse "Door Of No Return"
Sanctuary/Ras: African Holocaust
© 2004 Steel Pulse Ltd.
06076-89931-2

Start: 06:32 Duration: 4:20
Bob Marley & The Wailers "Jammin'"
Tuff Gong: B Is For Bob
© 2009 Island Def Jam Music Group
B0012564-02

Start: 10:51 Duration: 4:17
Bob Marley & The Wailers "Small Axe"
Tuff Gong: B Is For Bob
© 2009 Island Def Jam Music Group
B0012564-02

Start: 15:29 Duration: 3:57
Ziggy Marley "ABC"
Tuff Gong Worldwide: Family Style
© 2009 Tuff Gong Worldwide
TGW 0004

Start: 19:24 Duration: 3:44
Bob Marley "Redemption Song"
Tuff Gong: B Is For Bob
© 2009 Island Def Jam Music Group
B0012564-02

S...
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Timing and Cues

00:00 Billboard: Show opens, opening theme, "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

00:59 Billboard ends.. "... in this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

01:00 "option" song: "Starting out, this is..."

05:59 "option" song fades

06:00 show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister....."

27:33 end of part 1:

"... after the break, here on The Blues & Beyond."

59-second bed plays

28:32 bed fades

28:33 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

58:37 voice out on part 2 "... thanks for listening to this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

58:59 theme fades end of part 2

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
No Exit (clip) Bert Jansch and John Renbourn Bert And John. Wooded Hill Records/Transatlantic Records 1996 00:59
Door Of No Return Steel Pulse African Holocaust. Sanctuary/Ras 2004 04:44
Jammin' Bob Marley & The Wailers B Is For Bob. Tuff Gong 2009 04:20
Small Axe Bob Marley & The Wailers B Is For Bob. Tuff Gong 2009 04:17
ABC Ziggy Marley Family Style. Tuff Gong Worldwide 2009 03:57
Redemption Song Bob Marley B Is For Bob. Tuff Gong 2009 03:44
Jamaica Farewell Desmond Dekker Carribean Playground. Putumayo 2004 03:21
54-46 Was My Number Ernest Ranglin Below The Bassline. Island Jamaica Jazz 1996 05:44
Haayo Ernest Ranglin & Baaba Maal In Search Of The Lost Riddim. Palmco 1998 09:56
Sing Our Own Song Judy Mowatt Love Is Overdue. Shanachie 1987 03:44
In The Groove Ziggy Marley Love Is My Religion. Tuff Gong 2006 04:08
Nyah Ernest Ranglin Surfin'. Telarc/Tropic 2005 04:10
Forty-Eight John Renbourn Sir John A Lot. Shanachie 1992 00:51

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