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Another great artist that steve introduced me to is Scotty, there was a track called Sesame Street that was on one of steve's first mix cassette i received (entitled Roots from the Yard, if i recall!). clean race.mp3children children.mp3We just love scotty's unique cartoon/nursery rhyme chat! I think he did some versions of nursery rhymes, these 2 tracks are off his album, but i'd love to get hold of some of his other tracks - & particularly a copy of Sesame Street or Skank in Bed...
the cute story about these two lost musicians has been blogged before at Benn loxo, 
Molenga, Kawongolo, Perry, 1977. From The Heart Of The Congos
Nakoya.mp3
River Stone.mp3
on DVD from steve since he got a burner.
the cannier amongst you may spot that some of these mp3s were not encoded by me and deduce, correctly that they may not have come off steve's original vinyl, that is because the tracks have been selected by steve, either off my pc or his from filesharing networks
Junior Byles & Pablo Moses - One People (12 inch)
(12 inch) itals & trinity - in a dis ya time (ready done)
chasing down files over p2p networks is an art itself, especially if you don't know particularly which titles or artists to search for my own experience of reggae has always been that of appreciative listener & i find that part of the magic of reggae is it's amorphousness - the dubs, versions, and so on... so anyway these are fruits of steve's wisdom in searching and selecting music on audiogalaxy, back in the day, slsk, and others.
What i always loved about steve's compilations is that they have introduced me to some great artists, many of whom have not necessarily well known, one of whom is the late great instrumentalist Jackie Mittoo, originally a member of the Skatalites, along with other giants such as Tommy McCook, Don Drummond and Ernest Ranglin...
so, without further ado, here's a couple of classic tracks from the vaults at railtonroad.com:
Wall StreetAyatollah
i really like the politiscised atmosphere of these tracks, and others from the same era such as energy crisis, bandung declaration, eastern standard time - the way they have this internationalist & non-aligned perspective even from the parochial environment of 60's/70's Kingston JA, it was an optimistic time...
some difficulties ripping off the cd;
EAC was struggling, the cd is a bit worse for wear unfortunately though it still plays ok in winamp, so i had to resort to using Audiograbber which doesnt produce good quality rips (or so i understand from an irate user of soulseek who complained about the quality of some ripped mp3s) which just produced empty tracks, so eventually i used total recorder to record the player... a long & tedious solution which i doubt will produce top quality mp3 - o well!
Track02.mp3
Track11.mp3
i should mention at this stage a copyright disclaimer of course when posting mp3s of music that ultimately belongs to someone, if anybody has any objection to posting up these tracks then they should let me know and i'll be happy to remove them,
i understand that the concept of copyright is stretched when it comes to covering the galaxy of jamaican riddim and version, meaning, i think that most reggae from vintage JA vinyl is lost to copyright and that the creators will unfortunately rarely if ever receive a dime.
also if anyone has advice on ethics of filesharing or indeed good practise in cd ripping, then you're most welcome to drop a comment in the box below,
many thanks
Another great artist that steve introduced me to is Scotty, there was a track called Sesame Street that was on one of steve's first mix cassette i received (entitled Roots from the Yard, if i recall!). 
