IN JAH'S EYES

All right…after being married for many years in JAH’S eyes, my wife Krispy and myself are planning to make our nuptials legal with the State. I am holding the celebration on my late father’s birthday to honor his memory. My dad originally wanted to throw the party. He hand built this mighty deck surrounded by flowers and gardens. Sadly, it didn’t get used that much due to bad health and bad times and everything died. I have been busy bringing everything back to life.

I could easily cop out and just play BERES HAMMOND in heavy rotation! My player has one of those five disc carousels. Load ‘em up, press play and then walk away for hours. But I wanna play DJ. 

My wife picked a few necessary tunes and is leaving the rest up to me. My wife picked out ANGEL by SHAGGY as her walk down the aisle tune. 

No…seriously!

 I Googled Reggae wedding songs and came across sites that had suggestions that made me piss my pants! I thought I know a lot about all tings Reggae but I didn’t know Australia’s 80’s new wavers, MEN AT WORK, and their signature tune, DOWN UNDER, made it to the top ten Reggae wedding tunes of all time!

You have different stages to a wedding celebration. Getting seated, exchanging of vows, getting seated again, dinner is served and finally dance the nite away.

I did pick up a few absolute killer mix-tapes that would definitely keep the party pulsating with life. Only down side, VYBZ uses a few foul-mouthed words. I don’t want the embarrassing moment of explaining what “Wrecking the PUM PUM” means to my seventy-three year old Momma!

With Vybz...there is always a lot of explaining!

So I am reaching out to people that read my rants for suggestions. Any ideas? Write me…

Stretching Danehall's boundaries and stretching to the ceiling

In a world where sweetness is packaged with sex appeal to steal the hearts of young girls and to rob them of their lunch money, comes Lady Saw. Miss Saw mouths off the most cock sure word play ever. Her modesty would even make Prince, the perverted purple one, blush! But It is when she exposes her tender side that Miss Saw becomes more than the role/play model. Her honesty makes her records.



9.7 out of 10 Lewd Suggestions

All the Lady's work is a must, but the Passion and Walk Out discs are two of my faves. Passion? Absolutely! She embodies raw emotion, but not like the sweaty sex she pours all over the Strip Tease disc. After an epic intro, the Lady rides the "That's Amore" riddim, which is both scary and brilliant. You'll have to hear it for yourself to judge it. The duets Long Till It Bend with Merciless and Healing with Beenie Man are hard to beat. Shaggy shows up for Love is Strange. The Lady just works so well with a man to bounce her moods off of. Of course this is the disc that contains the gem, Sycamore Tree. Lover Boy is a Country Western spin with a lyrical refrain that catches you by surprise. By the way, the title track rides what can only be best described as a polka beat. Yep, the Lady has guts. And the Lady has a sense of humor!



9.7 out of 10 Personal Confessions

Her earlier records showed us her sins but here, Walk Out, is sort of a musical confession. We learn more about the person, Marion Hall, than her alter ego Lady Saw. Songs like "No Less Than A Woman (Infertility) and "Not The Worlds Prettiest" reveal her inner beauty. I like the way Marion Hall thinks, but I know your thinking that the Queen of Dancehall has gone all soft. She leaves it to her alter ego Lady Saw to carry the record out with stompers like "Power Of The Pum" and that crazy litte ditty called "Like It."