Trying to find a place to call home has featured in so many Jamaican songs over the decades, that I’ve gathered a few of my favourites together which explore these feelings of dislocation and the dreams for a better life… Karl Bryan – A House Is Not A Home
Rising Son – Everyone Should Have A Home
The Uniques – Trying Hard To Find A Home
Derrick Morgan – I Want To Go Home
Alva Lewis – Return Home
Bob Andy – I’ve Got To Go Back Home
The Wailers – Dreamland
Carlton & The Shoes – Happy Land
The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana
Sugar Minott – Africa Is The Black Man’s Home
Higgs & Wilson – Come On Home
Johnny & The Attractions – Call Of The Drums
Audley Rollen – Repatriation
U Roy Junior – Repatriation Version
Winston Francis – Going To Zion
Fred Locks – Black Star Liner
Freddie McGregor – Homeward Bound Log on to www.reggaeworldmusic.com every Friday between 8 – 10pm UK time to hear the House of Reggae live. Thanks, Ian

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