It occurred to me last week I haven't done a reggae tune in many years. Here is some happy-sounding reggae that is, of course, a sad story; hence the subtitle, The Ballad of John Brown. 

A bit cluttered for the genre, but hopefully cluttered with goodness...reggae has so many subgenres it is hard to pin down what it is these days.

Mix comments welcome on this one as I am not sure about it just yet.

Kingston Gangsta

 Loved it, Top shelf sounding production, but you forgot to crop the tail

This is great, James. You did something different at your studio, didn't you? No offense man, but the last few mixes I thought were a bit bass light. I think I mentioned it once and you said "it was enough on your end" or something. This here...is more along the low end I've been wanting to hear from your stuff. Maybe a tad much in the subs, but it's fine for this style as well as how tight you kept it. It's not loose at all, so when you get it like that, the amount matters not. I'm not hearing any booms or anything, just maybe a slight amount more than I would mix in.

Mids and highs are great....performance is killer, some nice textures and layers going on, synths and horns were great, not a single thing I can add here other than you rule dude. Whatever you did here....this is an excellent formula and definitely one of the best mixes I've heard from you. Everything is clear as a bell and where it needs to be. Great job James!

-Danny

James, this is very instructive into the way you produce and mix.  You have a great voice for this.  You raise the bar with each new production.  Bravo!

What gender of music don't you do well.   Mix is sounding sweet on my end.  EXCELLENT tune/performance.


LATER
Kev

In many ways I think this would qualify as "Toasting" (or Deejay - which for reggae is very different than that a DJ for hip hop). I enjoyed the song a lot, but I found the bass a bit over presented and slightly muddy even for Dub. I would tighten that up a bit.

Another amazing piece of work from you James.  Like kev said, "what gender of music don't you do well"

The mix and production sound excellent to my ears. 

Not my fave from you musically, but still great to hear what you can achieve with your talent.

Good work, James.  

WOW! What a coincidence! I was on soundcloud and did a search for, Reggae, reggae, old, school, throwback, theif, and bankrobber and THIS popped up! What are de odds Mon??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0xPWAtaa8

Man that is a PHAT sound! Well done....