I thought I had all of Ebenezer Obey's great LPs from the '80s, until I came across this gem in Dusty Groove in Chicago a few...

Singing For The People (Obey WAPS 578, 1980) continues the explorations in jùjú -funk that Ebenezer Obey started with Eyi Yato (Decc...

I was under the impression that Nigeria's jùjú legend Ebenezer Obey had retired from the music scene some years ago, but it turns...

King Sunny Adé's 1981 LP Juju Music (Island ILPS 9712) was a revelation for many outside of Nigeria, making him a global supersta...

Kudos to the blog Music Republic for posting the great 1981 King Sunny Adé LP Check "E" (Sunny Alade Records SALPS 26). I...

Olubi Taiwo, under his stage name "Expensive Olubi," was a midlevel jùjú star in '70s Nigeria. Other than that, I can...

Nigerians are known for songs extolling their mothers, notably Prince Nico Mbarga's famous " Sweet Mothe r." In honor of...

Thanks to Andreas Wetter for apprising me of this offer on EBay: Yes, that's right: Someone is asking $850 dollars for th...

Who is Tayo Jimba? I have no idea. I do know that I enjoy this 1988 LP, Ise Aje (Leader LRCLS 65), a great deal. The label lists the...

I've been collecting Nigerian music since the 1970s, but never actually made it to the country until 1994 and 1995. By then it was...

Jùjú music, so popular in the 1970s and '80s, seems to have gone into eclipse in southwestern Nigeria, the land of its birth. Even ...

Like a lot of people, I got into Nigerian jùjú music in 1982 when King Sunny Adé hit the international scene. In short order Ebenezer ...

I hate to say this, but it's been ages since Ebenezer Obey has waxed anything worth listening to. For the last twenty years he's be...

Occupying a location somewhere near the intersection of Afrobeat, Juju and garage rock, the album Uhuru Aiye by Bob Ohiri and his Uhuru Sou...

There's been a lot of good jùjú on the Internets lately - from Comb & Razor here and here , Worldservice here and here , and at S...

By way of Comb & Razor I've learned that Orlando Owoh, the Nigerian master of Toye music, passed away Tuesday, November 4 after a ...

As I promised , here is the second installment of ground-breaking classic jùjú by the great Ebenezer Obey, his LP On The Town (Decca WA...

Those of a certain age, like me, will remember when the Beatles first hit the international scene in late 1963. Within a few months Beatlema...

As you would expect this time of year, things have been super hectic around here, and I just haven't had time to post. There's not ...

Most people who have a passing acquaintance with African music are familiar with juju music from Nigeria, and its most famous practitioner,...