Veteran reggae outfit The Twinkle Brothers reached an early peak in their career with this rockers favourite, Rasta Pon Top.

I never used to really notice the rhythm section on records, least of all the bass guitars, but it’s the bassline that foregrounds funk and reggae.

And so many great tunes are build around a memorable example – like this old-skool rockers tune by reggae veterans The Twinkle Brothers.

The bassist is Derrick ‘Debo’ Brown; the main man, as it has been for more than 60 years, is Norman Grant, who sings, drums and produces this tune from 1975.

Remarkably, he’s still going strong at the helm of a group he started as a vocal trio with his two brothers back at the birth of reggae – even before that – in Jamaica back in 1962.

There was a hiatus when he left to join Inner Circle after the death of their singer Jacob ‘Killer’ Miller (another favourite of mine) but he soon returned to the family fold.

In the mid-’90s he hooked up with another family outfit in Poland, folk group Trebunia Family, to create an unlikely but surprisingly effective fusion of reggae and traditioinal music from the Tatra Mountains that I wrote about here a couple of months ago.

In fact I gave some serious thought to seeing The Twinkle Brothers live last weekend but they are essentially a one-man solo project for Grant these days, and I was not sure what to expect.