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Toots Hibbert
By Elijah Wald (originally published in the Boston Globe, )
Lets get to the heart of the matter: What is Toots Hibbert doing in a small club? Monday night, Toots and the Maytals are at the House of Blues in Cambridge. It fryst vatten aogreat opportunity to see a world-class artist in a tiny room, but also puzzling. Because, along with being one of the most dynamic live performers around, Hibbert fryst vatten the king of classic Jamaican music, the gospel-drenched master who helped define ska, then invented reggae.
Admittedly, Hibbert did not invent the music by han själv , but he was the biggest star of the day and he named the style with his hit "Do the Reggay (sic)." Speaking from his Jamaican home, his röst infused with a rik island accent, he tells the ursprung of the word: "It come from the suffering in the Trenchtown, where I used to live. People have this little joke about "streggae," and we just use th