Disclaimer: We reviewed this song already in episode 93, but we honestly forgot! So, we reviewed this song as if we never had before, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did the second time around!

This week, we dive into some early UB40 music and review the song “One in Ten” from the 1981 Present Arms album. This album precedes the “Red Red Wine” era of the band and has a much more roots and dub sound. We get into the simplistic chord progression and the distinctive instrumentation happening - including lead guitar, lead horns, 8 bar bass phrasing and so much more. We hope you enjoy this early UB40 style and dive into the rest of this album!

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This week we’re celebrating what would be Bob Marley’s 80th birthday! For this occasion, we brought back our Wailers expert, Dan “Thundermon” Battaglia. We talk about our favorite Bob Marley songs and what they mean to us. We talk about the recent biopic, “One Love” and Dan shares fun anecdotes and stories about Bob Marley and the Wailers. Dan also ties this into a brief background on Leonard Peltier who Dan works very closely with regarding his wrongful imprisonment case. Leonard was recently granted clemency by the Biden administration. It’s a packed episode and we had a lot of fun sharing these stories!

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This week we listen to and break down “Just Magic” and the dub version by Kiko Bun. This is not the first time we’re featuring a track by Kiko Bun and certainly will not be the last. We break down this self produced track and the classic 80’s rubadub style that pays homage to the Jamaican classics. We hope you like these tracks as much as we do. Dig into the rest of Kiko Bun’s catalog for more amazing music!

You can hear these tracks on Bandcamp, all major streaming platforms and on Youtube.

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