Oct 9, 2025
Fast Mouth - The Cables
1967 Gossip meets groove.
The Cables keep it cool on “Fast Mouth” (1967), a sharp rocksteady cut with plenty of attitude.
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Fast Mouth - The Cables
1967 Gossip meets groove.
The Cables keep it cool on “Fast Mouth” (1967), a sharp rocksteady cut with plenty of attitude.
The Cables - Baby Why (1968)
Right at the spot where rocksteady met reggae - sweet and beguiling Studio One recording.
fucking baby boy bastard wilson has severed the ethernet cable with his teeth because he HATES/LOVES(?) wires sososo much
Listen to: Love Is A Pleasure by The Cables
The Cables were a Jamaican vocal trio that put out some beloved singles for Studio One in the late 60s, right as rocksteady was transitioning into reggae, which were rounded up on What Kind of World in 1970. The album sort of fell through the cracks; whether it was because people already had the singles, because The Cables rocksteady aspects were completely out of style by 1970, or because around the time of the album’s release The Cables split with Studio One not very amicably, feeling that label head/producer Coxsone Dodd wasn’t paying them fairly, leaving him with little incentive to promote the album much, especially since Studio One had plenty of other successful artists, or a combination of those factors, or just plain bad luck, I can’t say, but 50 years later the music endures.
Our second day in Yosemite.
We hiked 16 miles, traversed 9,600 feet of elevation change, walked over innumerable stone stairs and switchbacks, saw two falls, and climbed the Cables. That’s the first hike over 6 miles I’ve ever done. It was killer and beautiful.
The Cables were not that bad actually and even easier to come down along. The climb up is an arm burner, and the climb down is a sole burner. But the view- it’s so worth it. Indescribable beauty, the pictures do it no justice.
We did the whole route in about 10 and a half hours; minus breaks, it took six up and three down. Good time for a group with a weak-lunged newbie.
Yose is beautiful. Go if you can.
The Cables ~ Baby Why
Awesome song ~
