Nice Time Riddim – Wailn Soulm/Roots From The Yard

A small but sharp slice of late-’60s reggae, Nice Time Riddim leans hard on the song that gave it its name, with Bob Marley and The Wailers setting the tone before Johnny Clarke takes over in triplicate. The Clarke cuts pull the riddim into dub territory, and that stretch gives the compilation its real pull, especially with the contrast between the straight vocal take and the two “Nice Time Dub” versions. King Tubby’s “Good Time Dub” closes the set with the kind of echo-heavy authority that ties the whole thing back to the era’s sound-system logic. Wail’n Soul’m and Roots From The Yard keep the tracklist tight at five cuts, and the result feels like a focused look at how one melody could travel from Marley’s original to Clarke’s harder, more spacious interpretations, ending on Tubby’s deep cut.