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Last Train to Skaville

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Last Train to Skaville
Last Train to Skaville

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Last Train to Skaville

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After disbanded in the mid-'60s, Jamaican producer brought in several of the group's members as the house band for his facility, teaming them with some of the younger musicians he had discovered. , as the in-house group was initially called, were led by keyboardist, arranger, and master and the equally as talented tenor sax player . Officially, this configuration recorded for between 1965 and 1967, churning out hundreds of the now-trademark -styled rhythms that would use as backing tracks for his singing artists. Often, though, , , and company got to cut loose and create their own instrumentals over the rhythms, and several of these delightful sides are collected here. Recorded just as was giving way to the deeper, slower rhythms of , tracks like the skipping and rolling (which isn't really at all, although it shows up repeatedly on collections in ' vocal version), the push and pull feel of the ragged yet sure and the infectiously bubbly are closer to being a kind of unique Jamaican version of than anything else (compare the one vocal track here, to 's version of to hear how close to American this stuff really is). Whatever the label, it's all pure fun, and durable, as these incredible rhythms continue to be versioned well into the 21st century. ~ Steve Leggett

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