Mountain Driving Mix(tape) ’09
Hitting the road? Check out this great mix from The Lost Art Of The Mixtape.
Brighter Days – Mofro
Flux – The Jazz Mandolin Project
Che Che Cole – Anitbalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Can’t Wait – The Benders
By My Side – Mofro
Darlene – Led Zeppelin
Magic Fingers – Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Free – Mofro
Willy’s Song – The Benders
Harmonicas Are Shite – Fila Brazillia
I’m A Ram – Al Green
Singles Party – Greyboy
White House Blues – Yonder Mountain String Band
Four Wheel Drive – Béla Fleck
High Cost Of Low Living – Allman Brothers Band
Party Girl – T-Bone Walker
Blackwater – Mofro
Photography – The Benders
Just One Thing – My Morning Jacket
Mean Old World – Duane Allman
Instrumental – Stevie Wonder
Coming In Hot – Peter Tosh
Big Country – Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
re: Stacks – Bon Iver
Sunset Road – Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Circles – Mofro
? – Yonder Mountain String Band
Can’t Find My Way Home – Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
Fearless – Pink Floyd
For Emma – Bon Iver
Come On In My Kitchen – Allman Brothers Band
That’s The Way – Led Zeppelin
Once Upon A Time In The West – Dire Straits
Peter Tosh — “Legalize It”
It was interesting reading in Clapton’s book about working with Tosh in the studio. Clapton stated in his book that Tosh would just be slumped in a chair, seemingly unconcious and would rise and play the “most brilliant” guitar licks. I could see that.
Peter Tosh — New York, NY (9/29/1981)
Pick Myself Up, African, Coming In Hot, Walk & Don’t Look Back, Mystic Man, Lord Of Lords, Wanted: Dread Or Alive, Get Up, Stand Up, Bumbo Klaat, E: Funeral>Legalize It
Peter Tosh — New York, NY (9/29/1981)
Peter “Mystic Man” Tosh performing here at The Ritz. SBD.
RIP — Peter Tosh (1944-1987)
Peter Tosh, whose guitar and singing style has yet to be duplicated, but is often imitated, was killed on this day 21 years ago. Armed men entered his home and attempted to rob him at gunpoint. Wiki has more:
on September 11, 1987, just after Tosh had returned to his home in Jamaica, a three-man gang came to his house demanding money. Tosh replied that he did not have any with him but the gang did not believe him. They stayed at his residence for several hours in an attempt to extort money from Peter. During this time many of Tosh’s friends came to his house to greet him following his return to Jamaica. As people began to arrive, the gunmen became more and more frustrated. Especially the leader of the gang, Dennis ‘Leppo’ Lobban, a man whom Peter had befriended and tried to help find work after a long jail sentence. Peter must have been disgusted by this turn of events and made it very clear that he would never give them what they came for. Upon realizing that they would not get anything from the robbery, the gangs leader put a gun to Peter’s head and fired twice killing him instantly. The other gunmen began shooting, wounding several others and killing disc jockey Jeff “Free I” Dixon. Leppo turned himself over to the authorities, and was tried and convicted in the shortest jury deliberation in Jamaican history: eleven minutes.
Here’s his “Equal Rights” demo.
And here he is performing “Steppin’ Razor” in 1979:
Mix-Tape — Makapu’u Mix (Reggae Edition)
Ketchy Shuby (Instrumental) – Peter Tosh
Johnny Too Bad – The Slickers
Sweet and Dandy – Toots & the Maytals
Nice Time – Bob Marley
Ya Mar – The Mustangs
La La Bam-Bam (Alternative Mix) – The Congos
Lick Samba – Bob Marley
Pressure Drop – Toots & the Maytals
Rasta Lead On Version – Cedric Im Brooks
Lion of Judah – Bob Marley
African – Peter Tosh
Sabayindah – Cedric Im Brooks
Mr. Brown – Bob Marley
Shanty Town – Desmond Dekker
The Harder They Come – Jimmy Cliff
Jah Live – Bob Marley
Inna The Hills – Linval Thompson
One Dub – Bob Marley
Hold Them In Dub – King Tubby and Friends
Jammin’ (12″ Mix) – Bob Marley
Peter Tosh — Steppin’ Razor
Peter Tosh live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. From 7/16/1979.
Peter Tosh & Mick Jagger
Words cannot express how much more I prefer this pairing to Ebony & Ivory by Paul McCartney & Little Stevie Wonder. Both are better than Sir Paul and Michael Jackson’s, Say Say Say.
