Josey Wales

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It A Fi Burn 03:16 Tools
Beg You Come Home 03:28 Tools
Eden A Try 02:37 Tools
Music Diseases 03:56 Tools
No Bother Tax Me 03:59 Tools
Drug Abusing 04:06 Tools
Asking For Love 03:16 Tools
Let Go Mi Hand 03:55 Tools
Love I Want 03:03 Tools
Jah Jah Move 03:48 Tools
Mi Have Fi Get You 04:01 Tools
Bobo Dread 03:07 Tools
Maxine 03:06 Tools
Stalk Of Sensimilia 03:04 Tools
Jam It Again 03:02 Tools
Yu Too Greedy 04:02 Tools
Let Go Me Hand 01:20 Tools
The General 00:00 Tools
Zion Home 03:07 Tools
Nah Lef Ya 03:54 Tools
Can't Put It On 03:35 Tools
The World Is Like A Mirror 03:20 Tools
Yu Wrong Fe Send Come Call Me 03:57 Tools
It Have Fe Sail 03:28 Tools
Whole Heap Of Corn 03:33 Tools
No Way No Better Than Yard 00:00 Tools
Feel Like Skanking 00:00 Tools
Wrong Move 00:00 Tools
Woola Woope 03:43 Tools
Send Fi Josie 03:46 Tools
Water Come A Mi Eye 00:00 Tools
Undercover Lover 02:55 Tools
Jah A Mi Guiding Star 02:16 Tools
Look Work (from the Upcoming Tuff Gong Worldwide Release "Dance Hall Originators") 00:00 Tools
Sorry To Say 02:50 Tools
Cure For The Fever 00:00 Tools
Stalk of Sensimilla 00:00 Tools
Let Off 00:00 Tools
Look Work 03:40 Tools
Cowboy Style 00:00 Tools
Hard Time 00:00 Tools
We Are The General 00:00 Tools
Everyone Hustling 00:00 Tools
Landlord A Come 00:00 Tools
Throw Me Corn 00:00 Tools
Nice Up The Dance 00:00 Tools
Sensi 03:36 Tools
It Have Fi Bun 00:00 Tools
Think Twice 00:00 Tools
Come Watch The Sound 00:00 Tools
Leggo Mi Hand 00:50 Tools
None Of That 00:00 Tools
Freeze Who Goes 00:00 Tools
Love I Can Feel 00:00 Tools
Jose Ready 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time 00:00 Tools
I'm Ruling 00:00 Tools
solomon style 00:00 Tools
Pon Street Again 00:00 Tools
check it 00:00 Tools
Le'go Me Hand Gate Man 00:00 Tools
Natty 00:00 Tools
Jungle & Western Cowboy Style 00:00 Tools
Love Me Ishen Tree 03:07 Tools
Ready Fi Josey 00:00 Tools
Everytime I Hear The Sound 00:00 Tools
Feel Like Crying 00:00 Tools
Rasta People 00:00 Tools
Build A Roof 00:00 Tools
Leggo Me Hand Gateman 00:00 Tools
Baby Come Home 00:00 Tools
Bouncing 04:09 Tools
searching for peace 00:00 Tools
Bush Wacked 00:00 Tools
Leggo The Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Kingston Hot 03:11 Tools
Use Me 00:00 Tools
Tax Me 00:00 Tools
Love Weh Me Want Me Have Fi Get 00:00 Tools
Gateman 03:11 Tools
weh dem a go do 03:20 Tools
Wi No Fool 00:00 Tools
It Haffi Bun(Proper) 00:00 Tools
The Roughest 00:00 Tools
Love 00:00 Tools
Ram It Again 00:00 Tools
It's Raining 00:00 Tools
Code Of Conduct 00:00 Tools
This is 86 00:00 Tools
Ruling 00:00 Tools
A No One Of Me 00:00 Tools
Soft Inna Bed 00:00 Tools
Mek Wi Rock 00:00 Tools
Bedroom Master 00:00 Tools
Roll Like Lion - Vocal 00:00 Tools
Grooving 00:00 Tools
One Way Ticket 00:00 Tools
Nuffy Nuffy 00:00 Tools
Preacher Man 00:00 Tools
Nice Girl 00:00 Tools
No Way Better Than Yard 00:00 Tools
Talk Too Much 00:00 Tools
Original Josie 00:00 Tools
Mi Life Story 00:00 Tools
Roll Like Lion 00:00 Tools
Rough Times 00:00 Tools
stamp out 00:00 Tools
Dancehall Nice 00:00 Tools
Ease Off 00:00 Tools
Dem A Fool 00:00 Tools
Build Me 3 Coffins 00:00 Tools
Just Love 00:00 Tools
Na Lef Ya 00:00 Tools
Autobiography 00:00 Tools
Dub Like Lion - Dub Version 00:00 Tools
Keep Rocking 00:00 Tools
Don't Come Distress Me 00:00 Tools
The Runnings 00:00 Tools
Ragga Muffin 00:00 Tools
To The Chapel 00:00 Tools
Curfew 00:00 Tools
Swing Low 00:00 Tools
Dead Beat Daddy 00:00 Tools
Version 00:00 Tools
Give Thanks for Life 00:00 Tools
Rentman 00:00 Tools
Respect The Woman 00:00 Tools
Stepping Up 00:00 Tools
Yow 00:00 Tools
Fussing & Fighting 00:00 Tools
Leggo Mi Hand Gateman 00:00 Tools
Dancehall Connection 00:00 Tools
Fights For Human Rights 00:00 Tools
Girls Take Care Of You Man 00:00 Tools
The Return 00:00 Tools
Girls Take Care A Your Man 00:00 Tools
Jah Bible 00:00 Tools
Original Jose 00:00 Tools
bad bwoy 00:00 Tools
Never Long 00:00 Tools
Sweet Love 00:00 Tools
Bible Never Fail Me Yet 00:00 Tools
NAH LEF YAH 00:00 Tools
Meck Wi Rock 00:00 Tools
Roughest 00:00 Tools
Gospel Medley 00:00 Tools
Nah Move 00:00 Tools
Medley 00:00 Tools
Wine Fool 00:00 Tools
Woola Woop 00:00 Tools
Rebel With a Cause 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Love 00:00 Tools
Model Pon Your Old Boy Friend 00:00 Tools
The Bible 00:00 Tools
Hoola Hoope 00:00 Tools
Fire Fall On Them 00:00 Tools
Imagine 00:00 Tools
Clothes Get Common 00:00 Tools
Walking hustler 00:00 Tools
better nuh deh 00:00 Tools
A no one for me 00:00 Tools
one time 00:00 Tools
No Liar Man 00:00 Tools
Fire Fire 00:00 Tools
Bowl Dem 00:00 Tools
Jungle and Western Cowboy Style (feat. Beenie Man & Ini Kamoze) 00:00 Tools
Swarm Me 00:00 Tools
Beg you Come Home {Come Home Riddim} 00:00 Tools
Let Off - Live 00:00 Tools
Reggae music control 00:00 Tools
Must Say Sup'm 00:00 Tools
na lef jamaica 00:00 Tools
Acid 00:00 Tools
Bible Never Fail Mi Yet 00:00 Tools
Fire Fall On Dem 00:00 Tools
Slackness Done 00:00 Tools
Chant (Kette Drum Riddim) 00:00 Tools
Dj Prayer 00:00 Tools
Mck Wi Rock 00:00 Tools
josie medley 00:00 Tools
Want No AIDS 00:00 Tools
Model Pon Your Old Boyfriend 00:00 Tools
Hail Me 00:00 Tools
don't run away from yard 00:00 Tools
Bowl them (Lecturer Riddim) 00:00 Tools
Dutty Rude Boy 00:00 Tools
Old Time People 00:00 Tools
Only Jah Jah 00:00 Tools
Fight For Human Rights 00:00 Tools
Chant, Chant, Chant 00:00 Tools
Right Move 00:00 Tools
Move Up 00:00 Tools
Water come a mi I 00:00 Tools
Josey Wales 03:16 Tools
Beg you come home (Come home Riddim) 00:00 Tools
Use Me Jah 00:00 Tools
Mutual Right~version 00:00 Tools
Give Me Love Up 00:00 Tools
High Beam 76 00:00 Tools
curfew with frankie paul 00:00 Tools
World Searching for Peace 00:00 Tools
I haffi bun 00:00 Tools
A No One A We 00:00 Tools
Free And Single 00:00 Tools
Le’go Me Gate Man 00:00 Tools
Eden A Try {Revolution Riddim} 00:00 Tools
Hunting Season 00:00 Tools
Fire, Fire, Fire 00:00 Tools
Sorry to say (Rougher yet Riddim) 00:00 Tools
Bobo Dreadlocks 00:00 Tools
Knowing Each Other 00:00 Tools
Its Raining 00:00 Tools
Party Crazy 00:00 Tools
My Special Prayer 00:00 Tools
Pass The Dollar Bill 00:00 Tools
Groovin 00:00 Tools
Leggo Me Hand Gateman (Golden Hen Riddim) 00:00 Tools
Gate Man 00:00 Tools
Everyone Hustling (Rumours Riddim) 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Higgins Town 00:00 Tools
Give we all the friends 00:00 Tools
Don’T Come Distress Me 00:00 Tools
Bun Yu Back 00:00 Tools
Ready & done 00:00 Tools
Ease Off (Nude Riddim) 00:00 Tools
Bushwacked 00:00 Tools
Chant 00:00 Tools
Leggo Me Hand 00:00 Tools
Run Com Show Mi Yuh Love 00:00 Tools
Ganga Pipe is A 00:00 Tools
Reggae Music Rule 00:00 Tools
Cure For Fever 03:24 Tools
Chant Chant Chant 00:00 Tools
Mutual Right 00:00 Tools
Get out a me land 00:00 Tools
Send Fi Josey 00:00 Tools
raggamuffin 00:00 Tools
Answer riddim 00:00 Tools
You 00:00 Tools
Must say something 00:00 Tools
culture a lick 00:00 Tools
Weh dem a go do (a love i can feel riddim) 00:00 Tools
Come Home 00:00 Tools
Who Goes There 00:00 Tools
Yard Woman 00:00 Tools
Leggo Mi Hand (arrival) 00:00 Tools
Wrong Girl To Play With 00:00 Tools
Special Prayers 00:00 Tools
Ready Fi Josie 00:00 Tools
King Of The Crop 00:00 Tools
It A Fi Burn (arrival) 00:00 Tools
Bowl them 00:00 Tools
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Josey Wales was one of dancehall's founding fathers, building on the innovative DJ chatting of his mentor U-Roy and creating a highly influential style of his own. Along with Brigadier Jerry and his sound-system partner Charlie Chaplin, Wales was widely regarded as one of the best DJs in Jamaica when dancehall took over the reggae scene in the early '80s. His gruff, gravelly voice and half-spoken, half-sung delivery were instantly recognizable, and were copied by many an up-and-coming DJ. Unlike his contemporary Yellowman -- perhaps the only DJ of the era who was more popular -- Wales pointedly refused to resort to slackness, keeping his lyrics purely conscious and Rastafarian. That meant he grew increasingly unfashionable over the course of the '80s, but he nonetheless continued to perform regularly, and remained a highly respected pioneer. Josey Wales was born Joseph Winston Sterling in West Kingston, Jamaica, and took his stage name from the Clint Eastwood Western #The Outlaw Josey Wales; naturally, "The Outlaw" became a standard nickname for him, along with "The Colonel." Wales first performed professionally as a DJ with the Roots Unlimited Sound System in 1977, and made his name as part of U-Roy's King SturGav Hi-Fi Sound System, where he spent three and a half years in the early '80s. There he teamed with DJ sparring partner Charlie Chaplin in one of the most potent one-two punches of the era, which in turn made King SturGav arguably the biggest sound system around. Wales' first recordings were live performances issued on producer Bunny Roots' label, but he didn't enter the studio until he hooked up with the foremost producer in early dancehall, Henry "Junjo" Lawes. Wales began moonlighting for Lawes' Volcano sound system, and in 1983, he issued his first-ever single on the Volcano label, "Baby Come Home." "Baby Come Home" wasn't a big hit, but its follow-up, "Let Go Mi Hand," was a breakthrough smash that established Wales as a recording star, not just an electrifying live performer. His debut album, The Outlaw Josey Wales, appeared later in 1983, and it cemented his status as one of Jamaica's top DJs, behind only Yellowman at his peak. Further hits followed, including "Bobo Dread" (which appeared on a shared album with Yellowman, 1984's Two Giants Clash) and "Drug Abusing" (on his second proper solo album, 1984's self-produced No Way No Better Than Yard). In 1985, Wales moved over to producer King Jammy's label and recorded a series of hits that included "Na Lef Jamaica," "Ha Fi Say So," "Right Moves," "It's Raining," and "Water Come a Mi Eye," among others. The Rulin\' album appeared in 1986 on the Black Solidarity label, and several collections of his work for Jammys also followed in the late '80s. By that time, however, Wales' style seemed increasingly out of date; other toasters had upped the ante for lyrical technique, and slackness and gun talk ruled the dancehalls, leaving little room for Wales' staunch Rastafarianism. Nonetheless, he remained an active presence on the Jamaican music scene for quite some time, both as a recording artist and as a mentor to up-and-comers like the young Shabba Ranks. He cut an album for George Phang in 1989 called Undercover Lover, and focused chiefly on collaborations during the early '90s. Duo albums with old cohorts U-Roy (Teacher Meets the Student) and Charlie Chaplin (Kings of the Dancehall) appeared in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and a duet with Beres Hammond, "Hey Girl," was a smash hit in the U.K. in 1993. The solo album Cowboy Style was released on King Jammy's label in 1994, and Wales also worked with the likes of Gussie Clarke, Tappa Zukie, Philip "Fatis" Burrell, and Bobby Digital during the decade. In 1997, Wales was robbed at a Kingston bar and managed to survive gunshot wounds; the incident briefly revitalized his recording career, as he scored Jamaican hits with the singles "Bush Wacked" and "Who Shot the Colonel" later that year. In 1998, Wales joined the reunited King SturGav Hi Fi Sound System, touring with the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Brigadier Jerry, and U-Roy. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.