Released on Apr 17 2008 at 10:42 pm
#47 – Half Pint Interview and Feature
One of the great things about doing this show is that I get to speak to some of my musical heroes. Half Pint is one of those artists that I discovered while doing my radio show at Emerson College in Boston. Starting one night, young ladies would call and request his new song at the time, “Substitute Lover.” That song turned out to be one of my all-time favorites, along with “Level the Vibes,” with which I’d open my show week after week. With last night’s performance in Los Angeles, Half Pint began his U.S. tour. Visit his web site for the latest tour updates. I spoke to him over the phone from his hotel room. I think you’re going to love what he says about his musical mission to uplift people. Plus you’ll hear some great stories about the musical climate in Jamaica during the ’60s, big labels like Studio One and Treasure Isle, the rhythm duo of Sly & Robbie, and much more. Due to a recent tweak of the Golden Touch studio, the sound quality has improved so you will hear the artist clearly. In other news, Reggae Rhythm Update has new Facebook and Twitter pages.
Half Pint – Level the Vibes
Half Pint – Days I Can’t Forget
Half Pint – Sally
Half Pint – Sally Dub
Half Pint – Winsome
Half Pint – Greetings
Half Pint – Substitute Lover
Half Pint – Hold On
Half Pint & Jack Maness – Unity
Half Pint – Blessing Darling
Half Pint – Just Be Good
Half Pint – Children of His Majesty
Ricktafari on 18 Apr 2008 at 9:35 am #
Yo, love your show brother…Big up to Half Pint great live artist.
One complaint Joshua, You shouldn’t talk over your tracks so much…let me here the track talk when there is no music playing. But other than that, I loved your soul to reggae shows, there where classic.
OneLove
Nuff respect
Fan From Canada
Joshua B on 18 Apr 2008 at 10:18 am #
Yes man, I saw Half Pint live at the former House of Blues in Cambridge, MA some years ago. Big energy from such a small frame. Regarding not talking over the music… Sounds like you’d like me to do the kind of show I used to do at an NPR affiliate station in Boston. They wanted a particular sound to appeal to their well-off, white male audience. Three songs – talk- three songs – talk. And no talking over the music. I am going for more of the hype sound, but I keep the hype dial at around 60%. I don’t want to dial it up too much and make the show sound like a sound system dance. I try to balance the hype with the reverence. Just my opinion on the presentation. Keep the comments coming!
Ricktafari on 18 Apr 2008 at 11:16 am #
For sure Joshua B..I just like to hear the chune thats all…
Big ups for your response..and keep doing your thing
It was just constructive criticism do take it the wrong way..love your show
I love the clashes also, but i also love hearing the chune!
Bless up
Rick
PAPA ROBBIE on 18 Apr 2008 at 12:50 pm #
Keep up the great work! Forward ever, backwards never!
norris on 18 Apr 2008 at 4:09 pm #
JB
Yes you have done it again ,what a good show ,half pint was brilliant ,the music was wicked,the interview was ,as it should be ,right question ,uninterupted ,informative,feel good responce ,the man love him studio 1 ,record on studio 1,more of this,
god bless keep it up.
how the hell you can better this one.
nuff respect.
bandillero on 02 Oct 2008 at 11:28 am #
JB
A Half Pint show without the ever popular conscious tune “Landlord”? C’mon, you got to make up and play Landlord on another podcast.
Just discovered the podcast on my Zune and I am loving every minute of it.
george ayoma on 25 Apr 2009 at 6:25 am #
Nice job man n give us more….blessings.
richard on 04 Nov 2010 at 6:52 pm #
Stumbled across this site. Does anyone here know of Half Pints MTV appearances? Also if anyones interested the Wikipedia articles on Reggae artists needs a lot of work. For example the reggae artist Barry Brown has no birth date! Anyone can create an account with Wikipedia and edit articles – if you have specials, flyers, books, videos, interviews, basically anything that has references to the career or biography of your favorite reggae artist then all this can be useful for Wikipedia articles.
Please help to preserve the history of reggae music for future generations.
You can find me on Wikipedia by going to the Half Pint article and clicking on the edit history tab – my username is “Sluffs”. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page or just go ahead and jump straight in to editing the reggae articles.