TRISTON PALMA – JOKER SMOKER

A reissue of Triston Palma’s Joker Smoker, originally released in 1981. Angus Taylor of the BBC on Joker Smoker in 2008: “Triston Palma’s (or Palmer as he was also known) Joker Smoker was notable not just for his praise of herb smoking (nothing new in reggae) but for it’s sardonic appraisal of the moochers and chancers that those who live such a lifestyle are fated to encounter. It’s continuing resonance was proven in 2006 when the Italian singjay and producer, Alborosie, released his own anthem, ‘Herbalist’, on the ‘Joker Smoker’ rhythm…. “