Cleveland reggae

The tunes on Leave a Trail are a key part of their set list. Hardcore fans already know a lot of the songs, like "Where Reggae Comes From," a First Light favorite that was never recorded. It's a salvation anthem in the vein of Steel Pulse, the protest-minded British Rastafarian group. The album is a timetable of Jones' progression as a reggae master.

I want this to be a part of that. When, 20 years from now, kids find a dusty copy on their parents' CD rack, they'll be like, 'What's this? We welcome readers to submit letters regarding articles and content in Cleveland Scene. Letters should be a minimum of words, refer to content that has appeared on Cleveland Scene , and must include the writer's full name, address, and phone number for verification purposes.

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Would highly recommend for your event. Roger V. Lynn W. In the '80s it was all roots music. Everybody wanted to be Bob Marley, everybody wanted to be Peter Tosh. Now more people are into Sizzla, Movado, Capleton. There's a wider variety of reggae music out there. But the two paths never seem to intersect. While the older generation loved the politically and socially aware roots reggae of Marley that the white rockers had discovered, younger Jamaicans were listening to a raunchier version of reggae, dubbed dancehall or bashment.

That music came to be embraced in Cleveland's Jamaican community about the same time First Light was packing clubs with Phish fans, creating two separate, parallel scenes that both Lowe and Fox traversed.

You'd go to clubs and the whole crowd would be Jamaican. It would be dark and everyone would dance until the floor got wet. It was slippery like someone spilled water but it was sweat. They played at a place called Playhouse East on Miles.

They had dances at the Spectrum, they played reggae music at the Plush. They would have house parties in peoples' basements. I play music in clubs and you have the people that want to hear old rock-steady music and people that want to hear brand new Sizzla Kalonji and you have to kind of appeal to everybody and it's challenging.

Dailey's is still the place to go for Jamaican food, music and culture. And although the plethora of live bands that played the clubs in the '80s and early '90s is gone, Carlos Jones's P. Rich Lowe looks back to that peak of the live-band reggae scene and First Light's role in it. Splash in the Flats was around, Peabody's DownUnder. I would go to Peabody's at Taylor and Cedar with 8 to 10 friends. You had some smaller clubs here and there. Brothers Lounge, once in a while.

You had First Light, Harambe, Satta. They stretched it, they were something that was very appealing to the masses. First Light were able to get into a lot of clubs and broadcast out. They used to jam, and it was a lot of fun. They made the music cross barriers and borders. Posted by druChristine Couture at AM. No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Yes, Cleveland!

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