Joker Smoker Riddim – Midnight Rock

Joker Smoker Riddim – Midnight Rock is a 1982 Jah Thomas production for his Midnight Rock label, voiced here by Jah Thomas and The Midnight Crew, Papa Bruce, and Triston Palmer. The three cuts keep the session lean and focused, with Joker Dub, Loafter Smoker, and the title tune Joker Smoker all circling the same sharp, rootsy groove. Triston Palmer’s Joker Smoker is the key song in the set, while Jah Thomas’s own involvement gives the rhythm its direct link to the producer’s mid-’80s rub-a-dub era and the sound he was pushing through Midnight Rock.