Desmond Dekker

In "The Last Wailer," John Jeremiah Sullivan writes , "Consider that in Kingston, in one decade, you had the emergence of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, the Pioneers and the Paragons, the Melodians and the Ethiopians, the Heptones and the Slickers, the Gaylads, plus an index of people whose names you maybe don't know but who, once heard, are never forgotten. A vortex of world-class talents."Read More

Jimmy Cliff is to Jamaican music what James Brown was to R&B, if Brown had just worked a little harder. Read More

So as I have previously mentioned in another post, I recently got back from Costa Rica (and am actually going to the doctor in like 15 minutes to get tested for malaria… that would be hilarious. First time to Central America, gets malaria). Read More