Sappy Makes Playlists

and are doing an acoustic set in on 7/3/25. Come on out and support! Set time TBD...

View from my old place in the Charm City.

“I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel.”

I called up all the rude boys, but their suits were in the wash.

Third degree burns all over the place, when I kissed you on the lips I scolded my face.

After-hours playlisting, and Thunder Chicken just delivered.

Road trip playlisting.

Now playing: “Northern Comfort” by featuring .

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Tommy McCook was a founding member of The Skatalites and one of the most influential saxophonists in Jamaican music history. Born in Havana and raised in Jamaica, he fused jazz with ska, rocksteady, and reggae, helping to define the island’s sound through the 1960s and ’70s. As leader of The Supersonics, the house band at Treasure Isle, McCook shaped countless hits.

His 1968 instrumental “Our Man Flint,” recorded with The Supersonics for Duke Reid’s Treasure Isle label, is a sax-led track loosely inspired by the 1966 spy film theme by Jerry Goldsmith. Though McCook announces the film’s title at the start, the melody more closely resembles “Sway” (originally “¿Quién Será?” by Pablo Beltrán Ruiz) than the actual movie score. The track exemplifies McCook’s jazz-inflected rocksteady style and appears on compilations like Down on Bond Street and Real Cool: The Jamaican King of the Saxophone ’66–’77.