REGGAE DANCEHALL PIONEERS: Alton Ellis — The Question Nobody Could Answer | Part 12

Show Notes

Series finale. He named the genre, trained the voices, and died with zero royalties. Part 12 walks the credit back to the source — Studio One, Treasure Isle, Brixton, the OD, the IRAWMA — and asks the question reggae still refuses to answer out loud: who named rocksteady?

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