Playlist for “Around The Fringe” - IAH Bob Marley/Ish Ahmed Edition 2/6/26

Returning to my original radio stomping grounds of Around The Fringe, a live radio program that I’ve been helping host for nearly twenty years, and one which is a direct inspirational template for It’s All Happening. The program, created and hosted by my friend and compatriot the Rev. Cool, airs on WYSO 91.3 FM, serving as a cultural fixture among the indie music and media scene in the Dayton, Ohio area and beyond for over four decades now.

I was hosting this week’s episode as the Rev was away due to the passing of his dear friend Ismael Ahmed, a man whose life and legacy of service to not just community but to humanity is/was profound. More on who he was and his life’s work here and this from The Detroit Free Press.

I had the pleasure of getting to meet Ish in person a few years back, who among his many creative activities and accomplishments was being a long time DJ and radio producer at WDET, hosting his show “This Island Earth.” I was grateful for his interest in what I was doing with It’s All Happening and appreciative of his efforts to get it added to the WDET programming schedule.

This program, made up of material from various episodes of IAH, was in his honor along with that of Bob Marley, on whose birthday the program was produced. PROGRAM PLAYLIST: The Police - “Demolition Man”

Kalyanji Anadji - “Somebody To Love”

Tim Easton - “Don’t Lie”

Rain McMey - “Bottom of the Barrel”

Femi Kuti - “BeBeBe”

Funky Destination - “The Inside Man (Soopasoul Remix)” (voice over music)

The Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences Choir - “One Nation Under A Groove” *(In honor of Ismael Ahmed)

John Legend & The Roots - “Compared To What?”

Bob Marley & The Wailers - “Roots, Rock, Reggae”

Jonny Dread & The Mystiks - “Revolution”

Bob Marley & The Wailers - “So Much Trouble In The World”

Jimmy Cliff - “Guns of Brixton”

Aswad - “Three Babylon”

Bob Marley & The Wailers - “Exodus (Version)” (voice over music)

The Preatures - “Girlhood”

Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman - “Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine”

Bruce Springsteen - “Easy Money”

Billy Bragg & Wilco - “Christ For President”

The Beatles - “Nowhere Man (First Version - Take 2)”

*[Feat. John & Yoko Declaration of Nutopia]

Paul Weller - “Wake Up The Nation”

James Reese & The Progressions - “Let’s Go (It’s Summertime)”

Booker T. - “66 Impala” (voice over music)

Herman Daly - “Uneconomic Growth”

Mobb Deep - “Survival of the Fittest (Rahman Culture War Mix)”

Jesse Welles - “Masks Off”

Supergold - “Pastimes”

The Conspiracy - “England”

Brainiac - “I Am A Cracked Machine”

Nick Kizirnis - “Satellite”

Ike Reilly - “Duty Free”