FMT: Roots, Rock, Reggae…Repeat

Its amazing the kind of ideas that pop into your head for themes for Friday Mix Tape when you’re walking around with your iPod on shuffle. This week’s edition has a basic simple premise: Roots, Rock, Reggae. We’ve got six songs focusing on those three genres. So sit back, enjoy and play it loud…

We kick things off with roots music revivalists the Carolina Chocolate Drops with Cornbread & Butterbeans from Genuine Negro Jig. From there, I thought we’d get the Led out with Trampled Under Foot from Zep’s hard rockin’ sprawling double-album Physical Graffiti. Next up, we’ve got Bob Marley & The Wailers with the song that this mix got its inspiration from – Roots, Rock, Reggae off their Rastaman Vibration album.

We follow that up with The Felice Brothers and a live in-studio version of  Hey Hey Revolver that they did for Daytrotter back in August of ’08, which originally appeared on their slightly hard to find album Tonight At The Arizona. Then, we’ve got one from the mighty My Morning Jacket with Dancefloors off of It Still Moves, which they will perform in its entirety on October 21 as part of their five-night full-album blowout stand at New York’s Terminal 5. Finally, we close things with the titled track from Toots & The Maytals’ 1973 must own album Funky Kingston.