Colouring Lesson

Colouring Lesson is a ska-reggae/alternative band from the Baltimore area. They released 2 albums in the 90s and I spent years (and lots of money) trying to track these CDs down. I finally found them and was getting ready to share them with you when I discovered right before making this post that the band is now making their recordings available. 

I will not be sharing downloads of the album but I will share a download link of three of my favorite songs by them.

Their first album was called Menagerie and it was released in 1996. 

Colouring Lesson - Menagerie (1996)

1 One Way

2 Black Coffee

3 Irie

4 Murder

5 Nothing New

6 Down with the Ship

7 Mea Culpa

8 Nothing New (Reprise)

9 Come Follow Me

10 (Untitled)

 More popular than this CD was the 7" record and CD single that it spawned with Mea Culpa Blues (It's My Fault) on the A-Side and Murder on the B-side of the record; Murder and Irie on the CD single.

Mea Culpa is probably their most famous song.

 In 1999 they released their second album Targets that has my favorite song of theirs Ragamuffin Sound.

 

 

Colouring Lesson - Targets (1999)

 1 Innocent Blood

2 Devil in a Paper Cup

3 Capitalism + Free Trade

4 Ragamuffin Sound

5 Some People

6 Monkey Wrench

7 My Spot

8 Don Gordon Dub

9 Amen

10 Ram Dancehall

11 Head

12 Cold Turkey

13 Some People (Reprise)

 

Their only other official release was from a single from 2001 in which they collaborated with a fellow Baltimore artist called Mary Prankster on a single titled Love Has a Rumble that is available on Bandcamp.

 

The only other CD I have by them is an unofficial live album called Live in Wilmer's Park, Brandywine, MD from 1996.

1 Shy Man

2 One Way

3 Black Coffee

4 Irie

5 Murder

6 Level

7 Zoomin'

8 Capitolism and Free Trade

9 Cornered Me in the Kitchen

10 Come Follow Me

11 Weatherman

12 Run Away

13 Light'n Up

14 Tenement Yard

16 Tenement Yard

17 Devil in a Paper Cup

18 Head

19 Nigerian Nights

20 She Blinded Me with Science

21 Shy Man

 (I don't know why there's no track 15.)

 

I selected three songs for you to sample 

1 Mea Culpa Blues - from the first album

2 Ragamuffin Sound - from the second album

3 She Blinded Me with Science - from the live CD

 

I was going to share everything but, as I mentioned, the band is making their releases available. You can buy them HERE. 

 

 DOWNLOAD the three sample tracks fromMEGA

 DOWNLOAD the three sample tracks from Zippyshare