Tuesday Artist Review : Toots & The Maytals

This is the second rendez-vous of Tuesday Artist Review ! (see first one)

I recently watched the english movie This Is England. I liked this as the story is well writen and shot. It explains the evolution of a tribe of skinheads during the beginning of the 80's while leaving in England was not that fun (Thatcher, Farklands war...). The movie is cool, the soundtrack is great and full of Toots & the Maytals.

So this week artist review is about : Toots & the Maytals

The Maytals are made of Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, Nathaniel "Jerry" Matthias and Raleigh Gordon. The band has been created in the early 60s and is strongly influenced by ska and soul. They are all coming from Kingston and they claim they were the first to use the term Reggae in the song Do the Reggay.

They are considered as the most famous reggae band. Even more since they leader Hibbert was emprisonned in 66 for smoking ganja. Their music became more reggae (more aggressive than ska) when he was released from prison 18 months later. They release then an album including the track 54-46 That's My Number which was a big hit and a reference to hibbert prison number and Pressure Drop. The band broke up in 1981, Hibbert recreated the band with new Maytals in the 90s. Read more here.

My playlists :

Découvrez la playlist PlaylistToots avec Toots and The Maytals