Pick a Dub

We're definitely in the mood for a bit of reggae this afternoon.

It's new from Keith Hudson, Pick A Dub From Michael Talbot Affair So one more track from me and then you've got Steph for 30 minutes

Turns upside down On my song I'd rather be No eyes, I'd rather see Baby, you, you are my sun

Bit of an older one this like So I'm going to do the next half hour As we do I'm digging a wee bit today Normally play pretty new music But today I'm digging back a wee bit

Bass and drums rose from the track as elemental forces.

By 1973, Dub was becoming an album-length language.

Herman Chin Loy's Aquarius Dub, Clive Chin's Java Java Java Java, and Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetter's Blackboard Jungle Dub stand near the entrance to that new era.

The precise release histories of early Jamaican records can be a bit complicated, but their collective importance is clear.

Which is terrific.

And I was listening a lot to Keith Hudson's Pick a Dub, which was released in '74, '75, and loved that.

And because I lived in West London at the time, I would go to Po- Portobello Road a lot, and that's what you'd hear down there.

And of course, London is a great Black music city.