Mr. Anonymous

Jeep MacNichol, drummer for The Samples during their most prolific period, set out to gather as many of his reggae heroes as he could on one album. For those unfamiliar The Samples are a group who are bigger successes on the road than they are in the record store, their sound is an amalgamation of jam rock (ala the Grateful Dead) and more straight-ahead modern-rock tendencies. If you're unsure of how there's a connection between a drummer for a jam-rock band and the reggae/dance-hall legends MacNichol chased down for this album, well, just catch a show of each scene and you'll figure it out.

Herbal remedies aside, MacNichol described his aspirations for this album as his attempt to make the