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"What Remains" The Road to Zion — Part 1
While boarding a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Kingston, Rootsland host Henry K receives a call from longtime friend and artist Patrick “Curly Loxx” Gaynor of the Jamaican duo Twin of Twins.
Patrick’s young son Zion is dead.
By the time the plane lands in Kingston, a story begins to unfold — one that moves through memory, fatherhood, and the uneasy silence surrounding a child’s death in the streets of Kingston 13.
The first chapter of the Rootsland mini-series The Road to Zion.
Because sometimes the story… is the best song.
Produced by Henry K in association with Voice Boxx Studios Kingston, Jamaica
Featuring Patrick "Curly Loxx" Gaynor
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closing credits: Jimmy Cliff Siting in Limbo

In this episode of Rootsland, Henry K connects a sumo wrestler in Japan, Bob Marley in Miami, and the quiet reality most of us eventually face.
After watching the retirement ritual of Yokozuna Terunofuji — where a lifetime of discipline ends with the cutting of a top knot — Henry is reminded of another private moment decades earlier, when Bob Marley made a deeply personal decision at the end of his life.
From Kingston yards to forgotten musicians, from champions to the ones who never made the top division, this episode reflects on what remains when titles fall away and the crowd goes home.
Most of us don’t retire as legends.
We go back home.
And somehow, the dignity is just as real.
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Produced by Henry K in association with Voice Boxx Studios Kingston, Jamaica
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Produced by Henry K in association with Voice Boxx Studios Kingston, Jamaica
Closing Song: "One Day at a Time" Sugar Black & Lehbanchuleh
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ONE TAKE
In this episode of Rootsland, Henry K explores what happens when life doesn’t give you a second chance.
Through a chance encounter in a supermarket aisle, memories of his childhood, and moments inside the recording studio, he reflects on planning versus instinct, control versus improvisation, and the power of mistakes that can’t be edited out.
From handwritten shopping lists to old-school reggae sessions where the tape never stopped rolling, this is a meditation on imperfection, presence, and the moments that define us.
Because sometimes the mistake doesn’t ruin the song.
Sometimes, it becomes the song.
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Produced by Henry K in association with Voice Boxx Studios Kingston, Jamaica
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Fundraiser by William Brawner : Rebuilding For The Future In The Wake of Hurricane Melissa
Featured Track: Feeling Groovy 59th Street Bridge Song Sugar Minott
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SEASON 10 What Remains · EPISODE 1 — A Song of our Own
In the Season 10 premiere of Rootsland, Henry K traces how scent, sound, and song carry us back to what truly shaped us — from Sunday night barbecues on Long Island, to a first Grateful Dead show at Madison Square Garden, to the unlikely bridge between reggae and American counterculture.
As we enter a post-Babylon digital world driven by speed, systems, and artificial intelligence, What Remains asks a quieter question:
What is worth carrying forward?
Through the story of Black Muddy River, Israel Vibration, and the lyric that changed everything — from walking alone to walking as one — this episode explores resilience, community, and the strength we don’t discover until comfort falls away.
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Produced by Henry K in association with Voice Boxx Studios Kingston, Jamaica
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Fundraiser by William Brawner : Rebuilding For The Future In The Wake of Hurricane Melissa
closing song: Black Muddy River performed by Isreal Vibration

In this powerful Rootsland Season 9 Finale Henry K guides you from the abandoned farmhouses of early American country music… to the zinc fences of Trenchtown, and straight onto a tour bus rolling through London, Paris, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam. We follow how songs became passports — how Bob Marley didn’t escape Babylon, but infiltrated it… carrying truth through the system instead of running from it. And just when the past feels far away — the story comes crashing into right now. AI bands topping reggae charts Digital life replacing lived life. A world leaving humanity behind… without a map back home. This is a journey about how music carries us home — even when the world is changing faster than we can hold on.
Produced by Henry K in association with Voice Boxx Studios Kingston, Jamaica
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