roots reggae ilxors, FOR THE GOOD OF MAN AND WOMAN, gather and pick your favorite track on THE MEDITATIONS' lost early 80s classic "I LOVE JAH"

? dunno this one.

https://www.discogs.com/master/view/244238

whoops my vote for I Love Jah is actually for Take It Easy

I had a proper Wackies session on Friday night (Junior Delahaye, Love Joys, Horace Andy, Wayne Jarrett) but I don't know this album at all. Will have a listen. Was with a mate who had a wedge of Wax Poetics back issues - great interview with Lloyd Barnes. I managed to grab the PDFs if anyone wants to read (well, photos of the article as PDFs).

Hey this is good.

https://youtu.be/zD-JDaR6Ghw

Always like this one. In spite of the creepy subject matter

I love Wackies... Not listened to much lately though. I always feel like I'm listening to it in a less-than-ideal context (i.e. anywhere except a bead-curtained bedsit surrounded by ganja plants and pictures of lions on the wall)

this is pretty good! I don't know a ton of Wackie's stuff tbh. Clearly some Lee Perry-style production touches in those phased guitars and in the drum mixing. Who were the backing musicians on this?

Who were the backing musicians on this?

that's the money question. the packaging / info on the physical release is so sparse and the way it was "reissued" in the early 2000s (it was never officially released until then) makes me think those details may not have survived.

my wackies knowledge is limited — was there a house band?

good overview: https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/06/wackies-feature

"Wackies’ loose collective of musicians were a big part of the evolving picture. Early outfits Reckless Breed and Foe and the Family Steep gave way to visiting Jamaican musicians, such as the expressive keyboardist Irving “Allah” Lloyd of Chalice and multi-instrumentalist Clive Hunt, as well as lead Heptone Leroy Sibbles, who played bass frequently at the studio"

If Sibbles was around, I'd assume he had a lot of input. He basically ran the music-side Studio One iirc.

some great info there, gd. thanks for sharing.

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Hope y'all have checked out other Meditations stuff