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True Love

All-star duet albums are great and all, but let's get one thing straight: Toots Hibbert doesn't need any help. The reggae pioneer owns one of the genre's great voices, has recorded more than his share of Jamaican classics and, in four decades of regular touring, has earned a rep for turbocharged liv...

2004 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Funky Kingston/In The Dark

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For over three decades, Toots Hibbert's exhortatory vocals and evangelistic stage delivery charged Jamaican popular music with the fervor of American gospel-rooted soul singers like Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, and Wilson Pickett.

Toots Hibbert spent his first 15 years in a small town in the Jamaican countryside; he left home for Kingston in 1961 and formed a vocal trio with Nathaniel Matthias...

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