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More bass, more drums and more harp please

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Over the years we’ve discovered some great reggae tunes featuring some strange bed fellows instrument-wise including (above) this bit of banjo dub by Andy’s All-Stars called Banjo Serenade (Cheers Steve Barker for playing this). And it was only a couple of weeks we found out about the great  Alex Porteus/Jah Bottle Head (actually caught in action using said instrument at 18 seconds in and a few more times below).

And tonight we have found some harp dub. The below is from Lo Free Meditation, T-key Free Meditation, Ha Lan Leduc and called Hola Harp part 1. Wonderful stuff!

Shar-dun-nay from One Tree Hill and discovering Jah Bottle Head

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Walking down into Honor Oak Park today we noticed a grapevine coming out of the scrub and bramble bushes from the bottom of One Tree Hill. We took a closer look and there’s fruit, Chateaux (pronounced chat-ox) Forest Hill anyone? There’s an excellent piece about One Tree Hill if you’re interested here.

And while looking for bottle themed records found out about an artiste called Jah Bottle Head aka Alexander Portious who plays wonderful instrumentals using a comb and bottle or just a bottle head. Whatever he uses, it is a brilliant sound. Here’s his version of Gregory Isaacs’ Love is overdue.

And then we found this one below with a crazy dub, nearly a ton on discogs! We were feeling a bit down earlier and these tunes from the great Alexander Porteous/Jah Bottle Head have really cheered us up. First bottle and comb dub anyone?

And there’s a version of Everything I Own (plus Bottle Head Overdue) at 11.42 on this LP that has some other wonderful tracks on it. “King Tubby’s and Errol T are our engineers this evening”.

Raise your glass to Jah Bottle Head!