I'm probably not the best person to differentiate between the different stylings of West Indian that all get lumped together under the catch-all title of reggae, but I'm learning... The next couple of songs I'll be featuring are from the Rocksteady period that came after Ska and before the likes of Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff took Reggae to an audience outside of their homeland. Rocksteady covered a relatively short period of time in the second half of the 1960s, but produced some amazing music. This is generally reckoned to be one of the earliest songs in the style which was slower than Ska, but not as smooth as Reggae:
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