Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Performance captured on the TD Main stage during the 25th Annual ROOTSANDBLUES Festival in Salmon Arm, BC. Hardcore Reggae fans will witness the Canadian performance debut of Talking Dreads at Roots & Blues ’17. Talking Dreads is the brainchild of Head Dread, Mystic Bowie, a Jamaican artist whose long and close relationship with Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth, founding members of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, began when he joined the latter group as a singer in 1996. He then recorded and performed with Tom Tom Club for nearly twenty years and continues to make magic from their unending collaborations. In addition to the groove-laden retakes of Talking Heads’ classics, Talking Dread’s debut recording also includes two timeless pop bonuses: “Piece of My Heart”, so often attributed to Janis Joplin, and “Shakedown Street”, a song near and dear to the Deadhead nation.
Performance captured on the TD Main stage during the 25th Annual ROOTSANDBLUES Festival in Salmon Arm, BC. Hardcore Reggae fans will witness the Canadian performance debut of Talking Dreads at Roots & Blues ’17. Talking Dreads is the brainchild of Head Dread, Mystic Bowie, a Jamaican artist whose long and close relationship with Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth, founding members of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, began when he joined the latter group as a singer in 1996. He then recorded and performed with Tom Tom Club for nearly twenty years and continues to make magic from their unending collaborations. In addition to the groove-laden retakes of Talking Heads’ classics, Talking Dread’s debut recording also includes two timeless pop bonuses: “Piece of My Heart”, so often attributed to Janis Joplin, and “Shakedown Street”, a song near and dear to the Deadhead nation.
