#Toots Hibbert

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Toots Hibbert

December 8, 1942 – September 11, 2020

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Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop

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This is a very nice little documentary, especially if you’re a ska-rocksteady-reggae nerd like me.

There are interviews with lots of old reggae gods, several of whom are no longer with us five years later (Toots, Lee Perry, Bunny Lee).

Dandy Livingstone, aged 74, features throughout because he's so good to listen to. He has a beautiful speaking voice, is very composed and happy to share memories. At one point, he sits down at his keyboard and sings a bit of 'A Message to You, Rudy', and it's just wonderful.

There are dramatizations of Jamaicans in London in the 60s and 70s that are low key and not jarring or cringey like you might expect.

'If that shuffle not in the music, it's not reggae' - Bunny Lee

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"IS THIS THE NEW DANCE? (YEAH) GOING AROUND THE TOWN? (YEAH)"

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a live shot of legendary Jamaican muscial/reggae group THE MAYTALS during their earliest incarnation as a vocal trio, c. early 1960s.

Members included: Toots Hibbert✝, Henry "Raleigh" Gordon, and Nathaniel "Jerry" Mathias. 📸: ❓

Source: https://plainorpan.com/tag/toots-and-the-maytals.

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Toots & The Maytals - Sweet and Dandy

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Toots Hibbert

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Spitting in my food here would be fine.

You know, we have this thing with water and us

And for two earth type sky cleaners that shit must be straight fire whatchu smokin' on

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Storia Di Musica #307 - Edizione Speciale Natale 2023 - Dylaniati Vol.1

Per queste due ultime storie musicali del 2023 ho voluto giocare un po', sempre però partendo dal disco del mese, Bringing It All Back Home di Bob Dylan. Pochi dischi sono stati più seminali, nel vero senso del termine: non si parla solo di successo commerciale, questione che con Dylan è sempre stata relativa (per dirne una, ha più numeri 1 in Gran Bretagna che negli Stati Uniti), ma di una fondamentale spinta creativa e di ispirazione, che dura da 6 decenni. Dylaniato è il titolo che Tito Schipa Jr diede ad una sua compilation di riletture di classici dylaniani, nel 1987. Il titolo mi è sempre piaciuto, e lo userò per una carrellata di omaggi al menestrello di Duluth, che insieme ai Beatles è l'artista più coverizzato di sempre.

Isabella Lundgren è una giovane e talentuosissima jazzista svedese, che nel 2019 prende in prestito l'iconica copertina, cambiandone dei particolari: lei è insieme ai suoi musicisti, Dylan era con la moglie del suo manager Grossman, i dischi sul tappeto riprendono l'idea della copertina originale, tra le scelte dell'artista svedese spicca Kind Of Blue di Miles Davis. Lundgren sceglie alcuni capolavori della discografia di Dylan e li riarrangia con stile, accompagnata dalla sua voce calda e bellissima: spiccano una versione riuscitissima di The Times They Are A-Changin' (sempre dolorosamente attualissima) e una Forever Young dolcissima; il titolo non è una canzone di Dylan ma una nuova canzone scritta da Brian Kramer, cantautore newyorkese.

La musica di Bob Dylan è stata a lungo molto apprezzata in Giamaica (i Wailers registrarono una strana, inquietante versione di Like A Rolling Stone già nel 1966), e data la sorprendente elasticità mutevole delle sue canzoni (e l'altrettanto elastica adattabilità delle sue canzoni ai ritmi reggae), ecco a voi un disco celebrativo in stile reggae delle sue composizioni: sebbene suonino stranissime, alcune canzoni acquistano significati ancora più profondi, come Toots Hibbert che a Maggie's Farm conferisce un'ulteriore intensità in ricordo dei canti per far rimanere glis chiavi nelle piantagioni a lavorare, ma è notevole anche la Mr. Tambourine Man interpretata dal grande Gregory Isaacs. Del disco esiste anche un Volume 2, questo:

dove le stesse canzoni sono remixate in dub style.

Ma uno dei più recenti, siamo nel 2010, e interessanti omaggi al genio è questo, che si intitola Subterrean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, dove alcuni dei più interessanti cantanti e musicisti della scena indie rock americana rilegge i classici immortali di questo disco, avvicinando ai capolavori originali l'ennesima generazioni di giovani. La compilation presenta le cover di artisti come The Morning Benders, Peter Moren del gruppo Peter Bjorn And John, i Castanets (con una versione originalissima di Maggie's Farm), Asobi Seksu, Mirah, o The Helio Sequence che rifanno con delicatezza Mr Tambourine Man. Tra le canzoni, anche alcune outtakes che uscirono nella leggendaria prima uscita delle Bootleg Series (The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, un disco fatto di "canzoni scartate" che sono tutti dei gioielli assoluti). Tra le curiosità, la versione di una di queste, If You Gotta Go, Go Now, reinterpretata da Josh Tillman, che fa parte dei bravissimi Fleet Foxes, grazie al fatto che venne usata in una serie TV, divenne una piccola hit.

Meraviglia di Dylan e delle sue canzoni!

Buon Natale e il 31 Puntata Speciale Numero 2.

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Gov't Mule featuring Toots Hibbert - Pressure Drop (live) - Dub Side Of The Mule

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Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, OJ (8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020),[2] better known as Toots Hibbert, was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he performed for six decades and helped establish some of the fundamentals of reggae music.[3][4] Hibbert's 1968 song "Do the Reggay" is widely credited as the genesis of the genre name reggae.[5] His band's album True Love won a Grammy Award in 2005.[4]

Reggae historian Steve Barrow credits Clancy Eccles with altering the Jamaican patois word streggae (loose woman) into reggae.[27] However, Toots Hibbert said:

There's a word we used to use in Jamaica called "streggae". If a girl is walking and the guys look at her and say "Man, she's streggae" it means she don't dress well, she look raggedy. The girls would say that about the men too. This one morning me and my two friends were playing and I said, "OK man, let's do the reggay." It was just something that came out of my mouth. So we just start singing "Do the reggay, do the reggay" and created a beat. People tell me later that we had given the sound its name. Before that people had called it blue-beat and all kind of other things. Now it's in the Guinness World of Records.[28]

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Toots Hibbert *December 8, 1942

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Toots and the Maytals

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Mama Look Deh - The Pioneers.

Put this out before. I'm adding new information. Incase some people think this tune was used in another song. It was later on when Toots Hibbert and the maytals used it in a song called Monkey Man much recorded. Good version but faster done by Amy Winehouse. Pointers did it first with this.

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Ras Kronik continues to push ‘The Energy’

With a new year usually comes fresh resolutions. For singer Ras Kronik, it is no different, although his plans include continuing to push a project he released in 2023. That project is ‘The Energy’, his third album, which came out in August on Pandemic Records, an Atlanta-based company owned by Sheldon Edwards, Ras Kronik’s brother. “People can expect continued positiveness, love an’ consciousness. Dat’s di way it has always been with Ras Kronik,” said the Las Vegas-based artiste. “Wi neva compromise our standards which a lotta people don’t like but in di end dat’s what’s going to carry us through.” ‘The Energy’ contains hard-hitting songs such as ‘Fyah Burn’, a collaboration with Turbulence; ‘Agree to Disagree’ and ‘Working For The Boss’. They hear Ras Kronik railing against the system, but he mellows out on ‘Your Love’ and gives praises on ‘Jah Jah Light’. ‘Consider Me’ and ‘Herbs I Smoke’ are other strong tracks from the 12-song set. “Wi getting good response for ‘The Energy’ but wi wouldn’t mind getting some more shows. But things are in di works an’ wi expect to be busy this year,” said Ras Kronik. Since moving to Las Vegas nearly 20 years ago, he has established himself in that city’s small reggae community. He has performed at leading venues where the music is popular as well as on major shows such as Reggae In The Desert. Hungry for the big breakthrough, the Jamaican has stepped out of his comfort zone and cut songs for EDM and pop producers such as Steve “Mr. Mig” Migliore, whose credits include tracks with Beyonce and Taylor Swift. ‘Get High’ is one of the songs he recorded for Mr. Mig. “I neva believe in limiting myself. Mi love roots-reggae and dancehall, everything, once it’s positive,” he noted. “Once yuh are an artiste, yuh should never limit yourself.” Ras Kronik recharged his creative juices in Jamaica late last year. He returned to Las Vegas in late December and performed at radio station KCEP Power 88.1’s New Year’s party. The dreadlocked artiste is from Clarendon parish in central Jamaica, which has produced numerous reggae stars such as Toots Hibbert, Millie Small, Freddie McGregor and Barrington Levy. Since launching his music career in the 1990s, Ras Kronik has trod the reggae boards in South Florida and New York, recording songs for different producers. He settled in Sin City 15 years ago and has mainly worked with the Bonafide Band, a Jamaican aggregation which also lives in Las Vegas. ‘The Real Thing’ and ‘Wild N Free’ are Ras Kronik’s previous albums. (Photo contributed)During the early 1970s, he remembers going to church regularly with his grandmother and relatives of Brotha George, who began recording secular music as George White late that decade. “I’m a gospel artiste from birth because I was born in a home of prayer, ‘cause my mother was a prayer warrior an’ I grow up on prayer. I always have a love for di Almighty,” said Flourgon. Born Michael May, Flourgon emerged as a major dancehall force during the late 1980s. He led a crew of artistes from Whitehall Avenue who broke through in that period; they included his younger brother, Red Dragon, Sanchez and Daddy Lizard. Most of their initial songs were done for producer Winston Riley’s Techniques label. Riley produced ‘One Foot Skank’, one of his biggest hits, with other chart-riders being ‘Big Batty Gal’, ‘We Run Things’ and ‘Mi Love mi Girl Bad’ (with Sanchez). In 2018, Flourgon sued American pop star Miley Cyrus for using a line from ‘We Run Things’ for her 2013 hit, ‘We Can’t Stop’. The case was settled two years later for an undisclosed sum. (Photo contributed)Read more about:Playlist AlbumWeh Dem Fah Ads Where to get it

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DO THE REGGAY WITH THESE CLASSIC CUTS FROM THE HOTTEST LABEL OUTTA LONDONTOWN.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a mid '70s record shop poster and/or print advert for the second, third, and fourth full-length albums by reggae singing group, TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS, released under the UK's then premiere reggae/ ska/ rocksteady/ dub label Trojan Records.

"Funky Kingston" LP, released 1972

"In the Dark" LP, released 1974

"From the Roots" LP, released 1973

In memoriam, Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, (8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020), another legend lost.

Source: http://xraymusic.co.uk/toots-and-the-maytals-image-picture-gallery-1.htm.