An evening with Toussaint in Portland Oregon

So im nah gonna say much because then i would be battling with de elder dem.  That is nowhere near my intent.  so my few words will be simple.

I was in a bad way.  The album "Black Gold" was being recieved well by the reggae community worldwide.  But i had just finished a 19 day tour on the West Coast supporting the record and we were in talks to try and do a nationwide run.  As it is with everything, hindsight is twenty twenty.  After the  west coast tour, we…

When i was about 17 years old, i was a freshman in college.  I had a professor by the name of Dr. Paul Gugin at the University of Evansville, and for political science 101, one of the books we were to read was The Black Jacobins by C.L.R.James.  This book ended up changing my life forever.  I was blessed with the good fortune of graduating high school in the golden era of black music.  The culture was thick and vibrant from all angles.  The underground was substantial, mainstream was getting flooded with…

I grew up angry.  I was a smart little kid.  My parents were very deliberate in that my mother stayed home with all of us until my youngest brother was five years old.  The development that happens during that time is so phenomenal when you have your mother present and available.  Me and my four siblings all thrived because of this, and we launched into kindergarten with a real love of learning.  My mother fought hard to get me into private school and because i got in, so did my siblings.  Of course it was…