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THE production duo of Wycliffe “Steely” Johnson and Cleveland “Clevie” Browne have four Billboard hits under their belt. However, Dawn Penn’s re-recording of You Don’t Love Me (No, No,...

Radio Free Athens (RFA) runs starting at 9 a.m. (most) Saturdays on WOUB 1340 AM and allows community volunteers and Ohio University students to present music and interview content through a format-fr

Clement Sir Coxsone Dodd, 63, was a Jamaican music supremo who founded the legendary Studio One label, where Marley and other reggae stars were discovered.

Reggae legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has died, aged 85.

Reggae legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has died, aged 85.

Reggae legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has died, aged 85.

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Part II – ROCKSTEADY Rocksteady was the Jamaican musical genre that succeeded ska, growing in popularity in the late 1960s. The late Hopeton Lewis—one of the foremost rocksteady singers in 1968 and whose song “Take it Easy” was one of the more popular hits of the era—had said, “The music and the dance needed to simmer down after the high energy of ska. The replacement was rocksteady, which was cool and easy.”   The successor to ska and precursor to reggae, rocksteady was perfor...