[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] In celebration of Jamaica’s Independence Day, Patricia Meschino (Rolling Stone) presents an in depth panorama of Jamaica’s musical legacy in 60 songs, together with music by The Abyssinians, Beenie Man, Black Uhuru, Bounty Killa, Buju Banton, Prince Buster, Jimmy Cliff, Cocoa Tea, Tradition, Desmond Dekker and the Aces, Etana, Gregory Isaacs, Hopeton Lewis, Bob Marley (and several other different Marleys), The Maytals, Lincoln “Sugar” Minott, Derrick Morgan, Sean Paul, Popcaan, Shabba Ranks and Crystal, Burning Spear, The Skatalites, Millie Small, Tanya Stephens, Third World, Peter Tosh, U Roy, and so many extra.
For the total checklist of performers, descriptions, songs, and audio information, go to Rolling Stone. Meschino writes:
Within the 60 years since Jamaica achieved its independence from England, on Aug. 6, 1962, the tiny Caribbean nation has created a number of the world’s most influential musical types, together with ska, rock regular, reggae, dub, and dancehall. Likewise, over the previous 60 years, Jamaican artists have distilled inspirations from varied elements of the world into distinctive sounds that, when coupled with the island’s astonishingly prolific recorded output, has made “the land of wooden and water,” as its first inhabitants, the Arawak Indians referred to as it, one of the crucial vital musical locations on the earth.
To have fun Jamaica’s Diamond Jubilee, we’ve compiled an inventory of 60 songs, one tune per 12 months, to inform the story of the island’s musical evolution. Some tracks have been chosen as a result of they heralded a brand new path in sound, others sparked a motion, some engendered controversy, marked a turning level in an artist’s profession, or had a major impression on the time of their launch.
As a result of Jamaica has been blessed with an abundance of extraordinary musical expertise, the checklist options only one entry per artist. Nonetheless, those that are acknowledged for a solo effort may additionally be listed for recordings they made as a part of a gaggle or in collaboration with one other performer. As a result of there have been simply too many data to select from for any given 12 months, some vital releases could not seem on the checklist. However that’s only a reminder of how amazingly wealthy this historical past is. [. . .]
For full article and songs, go to https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/jamaica-greatest-songs-marley-popcaan-reggae-1390124