Bottle & Spoon
Remember the good old days of Bottle and Spoon. This concept dates back to the 1930’s before Trinis figured out how
to tune an oil drum to play music.
The beating of Bottle and Spoon was synonymous and
still is at house parties and impromptu gatherings, especially for Christmas.
It is said that the Bottle and Spoon are “Ancestors of today rhythmic instrumentation
found in the steel orchestras”.
I strongly believe that instrumental to keeping this
tradition alive is Lord Relator’s Christmas Song “Bottle and Spoon” – with the
popular line “man does be ringing out real tune”.
I have really good memories back in the 1990’s of Lord
Relator by my Aunty Jean in Coconut Drive Movant over the Christmas holidays,
paranging and the whole family being festive and merry and beating their Bottle
and Spoon. Children and all, we had a lot of fun. Those were the good old days!
Check out this You Tube Video of Lord Relator’s
performance of this Song.
Enjoy.
This really takes me back to wonder days and beautiful memories. A bottle and spoon is still essential in a good lime as far as I am concerned. ...it gets the fever and the happiness going!
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