{"product_id":"triston-palma-joker-smoker-1","title":"Triston Palma - Joker Smoker","description":"\u003cp\u003eA salient classic dub \/ roots tune that first surfaced in 1982, 'Joker Smoker' lies among singer Triston Palmer's earliest and most formative tunes, making for the star cut on his eponymous album from 1982.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Joker Smoker' muses on the habit of fair-weather smoking from a heavyweight puffer's perspective, and casts scorn on those dopey dilettantes who dabble yet don't devote. In Palmer's own lyrical words: \"To give away, I don't feel, no way \/ But everyday you a come with the sensi \/ Mi a beg you a spliff, sir \/ Mi a beg you a cigarette, sir \/Mi a borrow your lighter \/ 'Cause dem are joker smoker!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeemingly innocuous, the song nonetheless reveals the libidinal reality of smoking from an on-the-ground POV, one heavily bound up in ideas of excess, machismo, economy and the keeping up of airs (whether tinged with that sweet sensi pong or not). And here comes a full forty-years-on reissue of the original riddim, including its dub version and censorious acapella.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"kingslandrecords","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60194713567566,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1058\/3474\/2094\/files\/e1ea5f_dd83ed5f79de41d8aa096f479abbdf47_mv2.jpg?v=1784737813","url":"https:\/\/www.kingslandrecords.com\/products\/triston-palma-joker-smoker-1","provider":"Kingsland Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}