One of the truly great musicians in Jamaican history, Desmond Dekker, died yesterday at the age of 64. I have little long-term faith in hyperlinks to The New York Times, but his full obit can currently be found here. Anyway, brief and useless autobiographical note... I first heard "Israelites" in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy, and immediately went out and bought the Aces' greatest hits. That was the beginning of what has been a roughly 13-year-long interest in Dekker's music. Bottom line, this is a great loss of one of the godfathers of ska and rock-steady music.
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