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Hugh Mundell & Augustus Pablo “Jah Will Provide”/”Ital Sip” (Rockers...
This is one of the finest vinyl 7″ 45 rpms I own. Rockers International recently repressed it using collector’s grade vinyl and packaged it in a really nice cardboard stock sleeve imprinted with the...
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Hugh Mundell “Little Short Man” 12 inch (Rockers)
“Little Short Man” was arranged and produced by Augustus Pablo for Hugh Mundell. Released in 1978/79 on the Pablo’s Rockers, the 12″ vinyl 45 is the B-side to Jah Levi’s “False Rumour,” a track with a...
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Hugh Mundell “Rasta Have The Handle” (Jah Guidance) 10″ vinyl
Hugh Mundell’s deadly “Rasta Have The Handle” was just reissued by the Jah Guidance label as the B-side to “Red, Gold, and Green.” The dub version on this extended mix is the hardest thing I’ve ever...
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Barrington Levy & Hugh Mundell Live at Volcano SS Constant Springs, JA
What a piece of history this one! Must be ’82/early ’83. Barrington Levy sings “Murderer” and the great Hugh Mundell follows with his own roots – Revelation style “Great Tribulation.” Need I say...
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MIDNIGHT RAVER’S Album Pick: Hugh Mundell ‘The Blessed Youth’ (Makasound) 2004
For The Week Of April 21, 2013 This week’s album pick is one that I searched for in vinyl for several years but could never find for less than a mortgage payment. So a few months ago I walk into my...
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Raver’s Album Pick of the Week!
Hugh Mundell’s ‘Jah Fire’ feat. Lacksley Castell (Arawak) Recorded in 1980 when Mundell was only 18 years of age, ‘Jah Fire’ is an album that spoke to me the very first time I heard it, and it has been...
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Prince of Dub Augustus Pablo Tribute with Lance Linares on 5/5/80 Midnight...
It’s Sunday Midnight & time to become dreader than dread with a crucial overview of The Dub Organizer Horace Swaby aka Augustus Pablo. Joining Doug Wendt this week is Lance Linares, Pablo devotee...
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Hugh Mundell “My, My” (Pablo International)
Readers of this blog know that I am a Hugh Mundell devotee and I collect anything and everything that has his name attached to it. As a reggae collector, sometimes you just come across pure gold, and...
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MIDNIGHT RAVER’S ALBUM PICK OF THE WEEK
Augustus Pablo & Hugh Mundell ‘AFRICA MUST BE FREE DUB’ (Rockers 1979) This album needs no explanation on this blog…
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In the wake of Bob Marley’s passing the San Francisco Bay Area’s Reggae Scene...
BAM (Bay Area Music magazine) was a free large size tabloid publication which ran regularly from 1976-1999. At first it concentrated on Northern California until the mid-1980s when it also began a...
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Augustus Pablo: Man From The Hills, NME, 1986
Included here is a great story about Augustus Pablo which was published in NME 11 October 1986. Pablo features heavily in my 3-part written piece on Hugh Mundell, which is only days away from being...
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“GREAT TRIBULATION”: The Life and Times of Hugh Mundell
PART ONE: “BOOK OF LIFE” “The day is coming up so soon, When there shall be the falling of all capitalists, When I and I people shall go home and vanquish Pope Paul down inna Rome, On the Day of...
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Hugh Mundell/Rockers All-Stars “Africa Must Be Free By 1983″/”Park Lane...
As I discussed in my recent Hugh Mundell retrospective, his first pressed single with Augustus Pablo producing was “Africa Must Be Free By 1983,” which was released on Pablo’s International label in...
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Fantels “Name Of The Game”/Hugh Mundell “Walk With Jah” (Arawak) 12″
Fantels “Name Of The Game”/Hugh Mundell “Walk With Jah” 12″ was issued by the Brooklyn, NY-based Arawak Records in 1980. Side-A is the extended mix of the Fantells’ (the name is misspelled on the...
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Hugh Mundell “Jah Fire Will Be Burning”/”King of Israel” (JF) 1980
While I have shared previously the 7″ version of “Jah Fire Will Be Burning,” I don’t think I ever shared the original 12″ version which was released on Jammy’s/Fatman label in 1980. The track was...
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Brand New Just For You!
WSP Soundtrack with Augustus Pablo and Hugh Mundell Added! Despite the enormous and persistent cult success of Perry Henzell’s THE HARDER THEY COME, very little about the Jamaican culture of reggae...
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Wailing Rudy Jah Fire Weighty Eighties Midnight Dread #51 with Row Jah...
“Love We A Deal With” sing The Rastafarians featuring Haile Maskel, Vision Walker (of the original Wailers), Herb Daly et al as the Santa Cruz based roots masters fire up this radio program answering...
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Midnight Dread Pops Design Not Style January 4th-5th, 1981 KTIM Love Warmer...
Midnight Ravers at midnight with Ras Michael live has a certain ring to it for the New Year. It’s the best of the rest of 1980 plus new 1981 releases from Hugh Mundell, Augustus Pablo and others....
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“Rasta Have The Handle”
Here are several deep tunes from Hugh Mundell recorded after his break with Augustus Pablo. “Rasta Have The Handle” and “Going Places” feature production by Henry “Junjo” Lawes and riddims by the...
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Reggae MD, Good For You
Now ear this. A new full-time full up stream for Midnight & All-Day Ravers: After many months, & special tests Doug Wendt presents a special tonic & degree, Extra something guaranteed,...
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