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big youth 45s

steven

25 Sep 2022 — 1 min read

Honestly, I don't know much about Big Youth, so I'll drop his wikipedia on the bottom. One time in the early 90s I had a day alone in Boston for some reason and I just walked to every record store looking at their reggae sections. Mostly it was the usual bin filled with Bob Marley Legend copies and a few Third World records, but at every store there was one or two that were worth the trip. One was a copy of Big Youth's Dread Locks Dread. Once I got it home I was hooked.

As I started collecting 7"s, Big Youth came up a lot again. Apparently he has a lot of singles, and now I have a lot of his singles. This is a mix of those singles...

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