Tony Harrington (born August 17, 1948, in
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County. By population, it is the List of cities in Kentucky, second-largest city in Kentucky and List of United States cities by popul ...
), grew up in Bracktown, Lexington, Kentucky. He was often better known to his friends as Doctah X, was a DJ, singer, and musician who operated the House of Dub Studio in Columbus, Ohio, and hosted a radio program on WCRS Columbus. He died of natural causes on December 24, 2020, at his home in Columbus, Ohio.
Career
Doctah X's music was firmly rooted in Jamaican Reggae, and he ventured deeply into the realm of Reggae known as Dub music and Dubstep. His music encompassed Eastern and African sounds. He performed at clubs and festivals throughout the Midwest (Dayton Reggae Fest, Psych Fest in Columbus, and annually performed at Hot Times Festival and the Community Festival in Columbus, Ohio). He also performed at clubs and events in his native Kentucky, and in New York City at Roberta's, Tonic and
The Knitting Factory. In the 1970s and 80s, as a blues guitarist, he recorded and toured in Europe with Cream drummer
Ginger Baker and played with blues legends
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often ...
and
Albert Collins, Lele Gaudi and recorded more with
Umar Bin Hassan
Umar Bin Hassan (born Gilbert Jerome Huling in Akron, Ohio, 1948) is an American poet and recording artist, associated with The Last Poets. He sold his younger sister's record player to purchase a bus ticket to New York City, where he joined the L ...
on Stay Focused Records. He has performed with his group Scarob alongside Lee "Scratch" Perry, Dr. Israel, and Subatomic Sound System at the Brooklyn Bowl in New York as well as at Bourbon Beach in Negril, Jamaica.
In 1997, in sharp contrast to his musical image, he applied for a job with the Main Library in Columbus. Of this he says:
He continued to do library programs for children and teens even after he formally retired, and twelve of his albums are now listed in the library's catalog.
[
Previous releases are Shadowthief ]
Recordings
* Another Day in Babylon (2002)
* Doctah X vs. Dr Israel – Baboon Records (2002)
* Umar Bin Hassan - Stay Focused Records (2002)
* Prescriptions - Big Spliff Outernational (2004)
* Roots of Dub Funk 4: Rise of the Electric Dread (2004)
* Doctah X “Agent from Kabul” Big Spliff Outernational 007 (2007)
* Skarob - Faktionink Records; Suitable # 2 Suite Inc. (Italy) (2009)
* Ecosystem, vol. 2 -Societa’ Nazionale de Salvamento (Italy) (2009)
* Homeland Security – Big Spliff Outernational; Mantra - Big Spliff Outernational (2006)
* Bangkok Chili (2013)
* Dub as One (2014)
* Shadowthief (2015)
* Code for Survival- Dougie Simpson (2015)
* Agent from Kabul (2015)
* Cod for Survival - Dougie Simpson (2015)
* Sarno Project (2016)
* Selah Sound (2019)
* A Souljah's Chants - The Genuine Heartical Vol. 2 - Dougie Simpson (2019)
* Python Diaries (2019)
References
External links
* octah X @ Subatomic Sound https://www.youtube.com/user/subatomicsound* octah X @ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx-VxLajVW4* octah X @ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=19072125* octah X @ Sundcloud https://soundcloud.com/doctah-x* octah X @ Mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/tony-doctah-x-harrington/favorites/* octah X @ Boomone Records http://boomonerecords.com/tag/doctah-x/
Doctah X on MySpace
*
Doctah X on Subtopia
Doctah X on ReverbNation
* arrington obituary @ https://www.rogersfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Macio-Antonio-Tony-Harrington?obId=19612724#/celebrationWall
Channel 4
Columbus Alive
Comfest tribute
Hot Times Festival tribute
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Living people
American reggae musicians
1948 births