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Even as a kid, I remember thinking this novelty single was inauthentic. Inauthentic but catchy enough to top the charts. (more…)

The only reggae singer apart from Bob Marley whose fame and ubiquity meant he was known by his first name alone… “Dennis.” (more…)

Largely forgotten today, Reggae Regular were key figures in UK Reggae in the mid-Seventies, with a brace of great 12-inch singles on Greensleeves. (more…)

Tapper Zukie made one of reggae’s more unique albums with Man Ah Warrior, brought to the world outside Jamaica by Patti Smith. (more…)

The quintessential American road song – by a band who grew up in England and took their inspiration from a pair of paintings by European artists.

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