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Slim Smith is a Ska act. Their sound grew out of Jimmy Riley, Leroy Sibbles, Bunny Lee, Glen Adams and Niney the Observer. Those roots explain a lot about how Slim Smith arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Clancy Eccles, The Heptones, The Kingstonians, The Ethiopians and Derrick Morgan, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Cables, Lloyd Charmers, Errol Dunkley and Pat Kelly, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Slim Smith, reaching back through Jimmy Riley and forward to The Cables. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Slim Smith was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer. In their book Reggae: The Rough Guide (1997), Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton described Smith as "the greatest vocalist to emerge in the rocksteady era".
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Slim Smith connections
Slim Smith grew out of Jimmy Riley, Leroy Sibbles, Bunny Lee and Glen Adams, shares an orbit with Clancy Eccles, The Heptones, The Kingstonians and The Ethiopians, went on to shape The Cables, Lloyd Charmers, Errol Dunkley and Pat Kelly. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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