tracks

Boogie In My Bones
Forward March
We'll Meet
Sugar Dandy
Jenny Lee
Back Beat
Honour Your Mother And Father
Let The Good Times Roll
Duck Soup
Oh Ma, Oh Pa
Darling Patricia
Worried Over You

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Shortly before the advent of Ska, Jamaica rocked to a sound variously known as Jamaican Blues, Shuffle Blues or Blues Beat.

Influenced by the recordings of U.S. musicians such as Rosco Gordon and Fats Domino, the style emphasized the off-beat and laid foundations for the Ska sound of the early sixities.

This collection brings together a dozen of the most influential tracks from this hugely influtential, yet largely overlooked period, when the modern Jamaican recording industry was still in its infancy.

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