Various Artists: Ghetto Ska - From The Vaults Of Wirl & Federal Studios (Vinyl LP) John Mayall Big Thief set up their

Big Thief set up their instruments as close together as possible to capture their most important collection of songs yet

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Produced by Fugazi / Dischord records legend Ian Mackaye:

with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers

Various Artists: Ghetto Ska - From The Vaults Of Wirl & Federal Studios (Vinyl LP) John Mayall Big Thief set up theirThe shuffle rhythm that was born from the American Rhythm and Blues tunes that hit Jamaica in the 1950's would soon fuse under its Jamaican influence and find an emphasis on the second and fourth bars of the beat. This OffBeat would create the Ska Sound and no finer exponent of this in the sounds early days was Theo Beckford. Theophilus 'Easy Snapping' Beckford (born 1935, Kingston, Jamaica) began his musical career in the mid fifties and had after