It's raining like the dickens here and there's a flood watch on, so it's not without a tinge of irony that I post today's fu...

Ahh... How I love it when the pieces fall together! La'ila by Akwassa, DWAPS 54, 1975. This is a record I've had for some time, fe...

As I have stated a few times before, I have something of a love-hate relationship with Nigerian reggae. I mean, I've actually warmed up ...

Another artist I know absolutely nothing about. The album has a bunch of great musicians on it, though: the ebullient Mambo on drums, the ev...

Another mystery artist. I know nothing of this Sunny White or the Clinks. Nor am I familiar with any of the names in the list of musicians w...

I feel like I should know who he is... The name does activate distant bells in my head... But I don't know; a handle like "Tony B...

Yeah, I've been back in the States a few days now, but I'm probably gonna lie low for a bit while I try to get a new scanner and iro...

I fear I shall never get the grime out from under my fingernails but I'm still pretty pleased with the day's take. I haven't gon...

Man, my blogging days feel almost like a distant memory of a past life... Hard to believe it's been just over two months! Didn't mea...

I gotta start posting again, yo... Next week. Promise. (Just wanted to let y'all know that I'm not dead)

Of course, this song is in my head like 60% of the time, anyway. Feels like an eternity since I've blogged with any regularity... It...

Just heard the news. More to come as I learn it. R.I.P. Thanks to John B. for furnishing us with this mp3 of Oliver's biggest hit, ...

Sorry I was so slow on the uptake identifying this song when N.I.M.M.O. mentioned it in the comments... Of course I remember "Highlife...

The Sylvers - "Wish That I Could Talk To You" > S I G H

American disco music has taken over Africa. During the days of Victor Olaiya, the Uhurus, the Ramblers dance-bands there was jazz music from...

It's not like Sonny was just all anti-apartheid all the time, holy war, Africa for Africans, liberation for the people, fight the power ...

I should probably mention at this juncture that the above photo showing Sonny Okosuns having a larf with Christy Essien-Igbokwe, Jonny Woode...

sigh Man. I'm gonna have to skip the Okosuns post tonight. Tomorrow, we'll talk a bit about Nigeria's foremost music historian a...

Well, more like 24 hours, really. I just got hip to her yesterday and I have since been unable to stop thinking about this song: I really li...

It was in the 1970s and 80s that Sonny Okosuns achieved his greatest success, forcefully projecting through his music a message of African u...