Jim the Boss is a music producer, artist, musician and entrepreneur. With his studio, Hoboken HiFi, and session band The HiFi Rockers, they record modern music with a retro flair, which is released through the Hudson Soul record label and promoted through the Hudson Soul Soundsystem. When he is not recording legends such as Cornel Campbell or soon to be legends such as Alex Tea, you will find him writing about the heart and soul of today's music on the pages of Rootfire.
Dub, an era of Jamaican music history that still has the power to capture the hearts and minds of listeners over a half century later. It has sent researchers down the deep and dark rabbit holes of history and has captivated the thoughts of recording engineers… Read More
About three months ago, I had an idea for my next Unsung Heroes subject, Leo Graham. He was the lead vocalist in groups called The Overtakers and The Bleechers and also had hits as a solo artist. Though I didn’t know much about… Read More
Nearlin “Lynn” Taitt was born on June 22, 1934 in San Fernando, Trinidad. When he was eight years old, he and his four brothers started a steel pan band called Seabees, the name taken after the classic John Wayne film, The Fighting Seabees.… Read More
There is something that intrigues me about analog tape recording in the modern era. Perhaps I’m fascinated that we are still hung up on the sounds of yesterday, or maybe by the fact that artists are still finding ways to wow us with old technology. … Read… Read More
Editor’s Note:
Just over a year ago, Rootfire premiered the debut release from Blanc du Blanc, a dub project created and performed by a collective of highly regarded musicians spearheaded by the widely-lauded, genre-melding Chris Harford. Several months… Read More
