by talkfromtherockroom | Nov 24, 2025 | Reviews
Spinning in the rock room today in tribute to the late great Jimmy Cliff is the 1972 soundtrack album The Harder They Come. Recognized as the record that took Reggae music from the slopes of the Blue Mountains and the streets of Kingston, Jamaica to...
by talkfromtherockroom | May 2, 2021 | Reviews
On the evening of a solar eclipse, August 22, 1979, Peter Tosh in his band played the Calderone Concert Hall in Hempstead, Long Island. Recently (at the end of 2020) on the official Peter Tosh You Tube channel a FM Soundboard performance has been published....
by talkfromtherockroom | May 19, 2019 | Reviews, Take One
Spinning today in the ‘reggae room’ are sweet smoky riddims of Peter Tosh’s 1981 classic cut, ‘Coming In Hot’. The song is the lead off track from Tosh’s excellent full length 1981 LP Wanted Dread and Alive, Tosh’s 5th solo record. The song was also released as...
by talkfromtherockroom | Feb 3, 2018 | Reviews
Following the heinous assassination attempt on Bob Marley’s life in December of 1976, he flew to London to escape the imminent threat hanging over him in Jamaica. He’d spend more than a year in Britain, developing and recording songs that would eventually make...
by talkfromtherockroom | Feb 14, 2015 | Reviews
Released on Feburary 17, 2015 and kicking off a year ofcelebrating what would have been Bob Marley’s 70th birthday, the newarchival release, Bob Marley and theWailers Easy Skanking Boston 1978 is a welcome and long awaited addition tothe Marley live discography. The...
