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    O'er Our Blue Mountain 3:25
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    Panis Angelicus 3:49
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    The Lord's Prayer 2:51
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    O Carolina! 3:52
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    Muriel 3:41
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    Dreamland 3:36
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    Jah is My Light 4:28
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    No Woman, No Cry 6:19
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    Redemption Songs 3:10
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    Let There Be Liberty 2:27
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    Words of Emperor Haile Selassie - read by Jimmy Tucker 4:17
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    The Book of Rules 4:21
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    Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen 3:42
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    Life's Richest Treasures 4:44
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    The Way of Love 2:53
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Trench Town Times takes me back to the beginning of our music, from home at 4th Street.

Trench Town Times 

The Cultural and Social Importance of Trench Town, Jamaica. 

Trench Town is the first housing and community development project that was established by the Government of Jamaica, for the mass of the people after 1838, the year of Emancipation. 


It was the result of a singing career as child soprano, living in Trench Town, that Jimmy Tucker became the first singer to be awarded an educational scholarship by the Government of Jamaica, in 1956. 


It was from Trench Town that the popular music, which became known as Reggae, led by Joe Higgs, became a popular musical and cultural phenomenon in the world. Joe Higgs first practiced the vocal art with Jimmy Tucker and his brother, Desmond, at Mico Practising School in Kingston. 


From the earliest soft wax recordings (Stanley Motta), Jimmy Tucker’s recordings of songs of Jamaica (ballads, patriotic and national) including “O’er Our Blue Mountain” and “Have Faith” (1952) to the National Anthem (by Father Sherlock, Boys Town, 1962); through the Vere Johns’ Opportunity Hour Contests; Clement “Coxone” Dodd and Studio One, Tom The Great Sebastian (early sound systems); Laurel Aiken; Lascelles Perkins; Lord Tanamo; Calypsonian; Higgs and Wilson; Bob Marley and the Wailers, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Junior Brathwaite (1960’s and 70’s), The Story of Trench Town Times serves as a moral barometer on urban and national values, with particular attention to intrinsic values, which are critical today with special regard to a tourism oriented political economy. 


Culture, as the value of heritage, shall be offered to the young people of Trench Town, and similar communities, in the form of motivational messages, information and stories about citizens who were national-builders, known to have lived and worked in Trench Town. 
The musical representations are recorded, selected according to their original impact on society, and according to their form, features, melodic and organic character of the genre that has made Trench Town, like Mo Town in the United States, the Heartbeat of a people.

Trench Town Jamaica - a special place, home of the creative history of Jamaican music. You will see 4th Street, Collie Smith Drive, and the Trench Town Culture Yard Museum

The Great Gifts of Heritage productions constitute an integral feature of traditional and future values of the Jamaican nation and the integrative aim for the Caribbean community.