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Saturday July 3rd, 2021 with Stephen Neale
Ballad of Lost

Automatic Version
Penthouse Allstars - Digital Single (Automatic Riddim) - Penthouse Records (2009)
One True Love
Naomi Cowan - Digital Single (Ghetto Heaven Riddim) - Maximum Sound (2019)
Don't Say Nuttin'
The Kemist & Marcia Griffiths - Digital Single (Ghetto Heaven Riddim) - Maximum Sound (2019)
Fight for Love
Maxi Priest - Digital Single - Penthouse Records (2021) New
Taxi Driver
Hezron - Digital Single - Stone Love (2016)
Gentrification
Joe Yorke & The Eastonian Singers - Digital Single - Happy People Records (2021) New
Le Soleil Demande
Wesli - Digital Single - Cumbancha (2021) Canadian New
Born in Africa
Eddy Kenzo - Made in Africa - Big Talent Entertainment (2021) New
Asante (featuring Aline Gahongayire on vocals and Mighty Popo on guitar)
Butera Knowless - Inzora - Kina Music (2021) New
Kasandra (featuring Stadic)
Freetown Collective - Digital Single - Stadic Music (2021) New
Success Ya Grand Kalle
Kékélé - Rumba Congo - (orig. late 1990s; Stern's Africa 2001)
Kulala
Miriam Makeba - Keep Me in Mind (Remastered) - Strut Records (2021; orig. Reprise 1970)
Pressure
The O'Jays - The Last Word - S-Curve Records (2019)
I Can Feel Your Pain
Robert Finley - Sharecropper's Son - Easy Eye Sound (2021)
He Touched Me
Elizabeth King - Living in the Last Days - Bible & Tire (2021) New
Soul Couldn't be Contented
The Inspirational Souls - Saved & Sanctified: Songs on the Jade Label - Numero Group (2015; orig. circa late 1960s)
If I Could Just Hold Out 'Til Tomorrow
Brother Theotis Taylor - Brother Theotis Taylor - Mississippi Records (2020; rec. made in 70's)
Make Me Real
The Walker Family Singers - Panola County Spirit - Daptone Records (2016)
You're the Best Thing
The True Believers - Back to the Roots - 4 Winds / Malaco (2018)
Call My Wife
Linsey Alexander - Come Back Baby - Delmark Records (2014)
I Can't Quit You Baby
Otis Rush - 7" Single - Cobra Records (1956; B-side is Sit Down Baby
By Myself
Arthur Adams - Here To Make You Feel Good - Cleopatra Blues (2019)
How Can I Stop
The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon - Virgin Records (1997)
Ballad of Lost
Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange - Rounder Records (2021) New
Poets Be Buried
Kaia Kater - Grenades - Smithsonian Folkways (2018) Canadian
Carnage
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage - Goliath (2021)
Time and Tide
Paul Kelly - Spring and Fall - Gawd Aggie (2012)
Bring Back That Which Is Kind to You
Thayna Iyer - Kind - Topshelf Records (2020)
This Flight Tonight
Joni Mitchell - Blue - Reprise (June 22, 1971) Canadian
A Certain Kind of Memory
Kacy & Clayton - The Siren's Song - New West Records (2018) Canadian
Better Bad Decisions
Jessica Pearson and the East Wind - On The Line - Independent (2021) Canadian New
Lonesome Hearts
The Good Lovelies - Let the Rain Fall - Independent (2011) Canadian
why don't you love me for who I am?
Nudie and the Turks - looking for a good time - Independent (2008) Canadian
St. James Infirmary
Ray Condo and His Hardrock Goners - Hillbilly Holiday - Fury Records (1993) Canadian
Serene Lee
Dale Watson - Dale Watson Presents: The Memphians - Red River Entertainment (2021) New
Interactive CKCU
Tim A
Loving your selections this morning as always Steve! Hope you're well on this lovely morning.

8:00 AM, July 3rd, 2021
peterbunnett
Stephen,It,s good to hear your commentary on the various manifestations of the reggae esthetic..When you say you know a lot about it,it could be restated as"caring alot about it" There was a time decades back when I was infatuated with all reggae music untill a Jamaican juice bar moved into the space right below my Kensington Ave apartment in Toronto . Tiger attached two giant speakers to the ceiling(my floor) of his juice bar.Several years of trying to sleep with the Rastaman vibration coming through 4 inches of a foam mattress. Thanks for all the thoughtful programming.

8:09 AM, July 3rd, 2021
Stephen Neale (host)
Thanks, Tim. Still kind of weird to be sitting at home listening to myself but I am out on the back porch enjoying the fresh air (and the music too)!

8:09 AM, July 3rd, 2021
Stephen Neale (host)
Thanks, Peter. I like your admission of 'infatuated', I was at a time obsessed with all things Gregory Isaacs. Trust sleep is more restful these days....

8:14 AM, July 3rd, 2021
pete
12 inches of foam

8:19 AM, July 3rd, 2021
hillbilly
"Makin' me real....Makin' me heal"...after last night for Montreal.... Thanks, Doc!;-)

8:28 AM, July 3rd, 2021
Stephen Neale (host)
Hang in there, hillbilly... even though a 2021 miracle on ice is required...

8:36 AM, July 3rd, 2021
hb
playing along on harp...somebody call my wife....I'm so stoned...tipped canoe ¶;-)

8:50 AM, July 3rd, 2021
Stephen Neale (host)
This is the link I referred to when talking about Carnage, it is from Nick Cave's blog and in this posting provides his impressions of the song: ---> www.theredhandfiles.com/such-a-beautiful-sad-song-carnage/

9:27 AM, July 3rd, 2021
Tim A
Nice to hear some Ray Condo! Brings back good memories of early days at the Black Sheep. Back to the top. Speaking of Gregory Isaacs, I've had Night Nurse stuck in my head for days.

9:51 AM, July 3rd, 2021
Stephen Neale (host)
Night Nurse: Tell her it's a case of emergency / There's a patient by the name of Gregory Thanks, Tim!

10:01 AM, July 3rd, 2021