This Day in Jamaican Music

October 8

On October 8 in Jamaican music: 4 releases dated to this day, including Blowing With the Wind by Augustus Pablo (1990) and 2 stories from the news archive.

Releases

Released on this day

4

Albums and singles in the Listen library dated to this day — press play from any title.

  1. 1990 Blowing With the WindAlbum

    Augustus Pablo

  2. 1996 Lion In The MorningAlbum

    Julian Marley

  3. 2008 AcclaimedAlbum

    Ken Boothe

  4. 2008 So BlessedSingle

    Mavado

News archive

Stories published on this day

2

From the JamaicansMusic newsroom, going back to 2008.

  1. 2018 Beres Hammond's "Never Ending" Album Out October 12th on VP Records

    Press Releases

  2. 2014 Jesse Royal highlights how people are afraid to readily accept change with Noisey Jamaica

    Music

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