This week on Dread Air, we hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! Gee C. asks to please donate to organizations that help those in need, like Doctors Without Borders and the National Domestic Workers Alliance! And now to the “quarantunes”: this week we honor the great British “lover’s rock” vocal trio Brown Sugar, start the show off with selections of early reggae from the new remastered Studio One compilation Jamaica All Stars, and close the show with a trio of early 80s dancehall selections, as well as a favorite, “Ragga Muffin Style,” by the late, great deejay Jah Stitch - Rest in Power.
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