MUSIC LIKE DIRT – APRIL 20, 2025

ROCKSTEADY RESURRECTION

Air Date: 04.20.25 10AM CST

This week on Music Like Dirt – Rocksteady Resurrection. The soulful, short-lived era of Jamaican music that bloomed between ska and reggae. From 1966 to 1968, rocksteady slowed the tempo and turned up the emotion, laying the foundation for modern reggae with its deep basslines, tight vocal harmonies, and slowed down rhythms. Though its reign was brief, its influence runs deep — and this show brings some of my favorite rocksteady and rocksteady adjacent tracks .

• Riding High on a Windy Day – The Paragons
• The Shadow of Your Smile – Tommy McCook
• Everyday Is Just A Holiday – Sensations (the)
• Queen Majesty – The Techniques
• Things a Come Up to Bump – The Bassies
• Baby Why – The Cables
• Bombshell – Derrick Harriott and the Crystalites
• I’ll Get Along Without You – The Melodians
• Let Him Try – Alton Ellis
• On the Beach – The Paragons
• Surfin’ – Ernest Ranglin
• Ali Baba – John Holt
• Dance All Night – The Tartans
• The Things You Say You Love – The Jamaicans
• Home, Home, Home – Ken Boothe
• Soul Shot – Lynn Taitt & the Jets
• Have Mercy Mr. Percy – The Termites
• You Don’t Care (aka You’ll Want Me Back) – The Techniques
• Nanny Goat – Larry Marshall
• That Girl – Lloyd & Glen
• The Time Has Come – Slim Smith
• Gin & Tonic – The Radiation Kings
• My Conversation – The Uniques