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Toots & the Maytals
Formed: 1966
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117 Ratings
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Genre: World
Group Members: Jackie Jackson, Hux Brown, Harold Butler, Paul Douglas, Raleigh Gordon, Winston Grennan, Carl Harvey, Toots Hibbert, Winston Wright, Nathaniel ...See All
Biography: While they never achieved the commercial success or cultural impact of the Wailers, Toots & the Maytals were nearly as important in the history of Jamaican music; like the Wailers, the Maytals thrived as ska gave way to rocksteady and then evolved into reggae, they boasted one of the island's finest ...Read full biography
Hour Live 'Straight from the Yard' (Dedicated to Robert Nesta)
Hour Live 'Straight from the Yard' (Dedicated to Robert Nesta)
Released: 1982
Label: Genes Records
Critics' Rating:
One band that never forgot reggae's ska roots was Toots & the Maytals, whose music has maintained the robustness associated with ska recordings of the 1950s and early '60s. The sweetness found in some ...Read full review
Toots in Memphis
Toots in Memphis
Released: 1988
Label: Mango
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Of all the great singers of reggae's golden era, Toots Hibbert of Toots & the Maytals was always the one most profoundly influenced by American soul music, so when Jim Dickinson brought Toots to Ardent ...Read full review
More Toots & the Maytals albums: Main Albums (26), Compilations (72), Singles & EPs (2), DVD/Video (3)
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