I can't think of cops without robbers, the pairing being as intrinsic as salt and pepper, fish and chips and rock and roll. So, for me, ...

The Clash : Police & Thieves The Clash : I Fought The Law The Clash : Police On My Back   [ purchase The Clash ] [ purchase Sandinista...

Joe Strummer : Redemption Song Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer : Redemption Song   [ purchase Streetcore ] [ purchase Unearthed ] When Bob Ma...

Toots and the Maytals : Do The Reggay [ purchase ]  I suspect that like most American music lovers, my knowledge of reggae music is limit...

Our Native Daughters : Better Git Yer Learnin’ [ purchase ]  I’ve written fairly frequently and glowingly about Rhiannon Giddens, who i...

Bob Marley & The Wailers : Punky Reggae Party [ purchase ] On the one hand, punk music and reggae don’t appear to have much in com...

The Archies : Sugar, Sugar [ purchase ] A couple of years ago, I wrote about how my love of music began in the summer of 1969. That ...

What is most elemental about summer? For me, it’s getting out on the road and being gone gone gone. Like one of our other blogg...

Bob Marley & The Wailers : No Woman, No Cry [ purchase ] After I was chosen to become the program director of WPRB, my friend Eri...

Bob Marley : Zimbabwe [ purchase ] In the country formerly known as Rhodesia, it was Zimbabwe’s Liberation War that resulted in the...

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Bob Marley and the Wailers : No Woman, No Cry [ purchase ] I have mentioned elsewhere that the bass line is essential to the workings of fun...

Bob Marley: Redemption Song [ purchase ] OK - There are two songs that I thought for sure would be featured this week, but it's Friday ...

Bob Marley and the Wailers: Stir It Up [ purchase ] I have no idea how much, or indeed whether, reggae was a part of the normative american...