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Sly & Robbie albums featuring Robbie Shakespeare See all 16 items
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| | Taxi Gang/Half Pint Live 1986 CDs (2009)
 $9.79 
A fantastic 2 CD collection of live tracks recorded in Minneapolis in 1986. Features Sly and Robbie's crack backing band taking familiar and rare tracks to the next level. Sly and Robbie's career is covered as they back up Yellowman, ...
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| Drum & Bass Strip To The Bone By Howie B CD (1999)
$10.15
By the time of this album's release, bass player Robbie Shakespeare and drummer Lowell "Sly" Dunbar had been working together for almost 25 years. On this collaboration Sly & Robbie lay down twelve tracks that are their own unique reggae-inflected ...
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| Friends CD (1998)
$10.59
FRIENDS is an exceptional new reggae offering by this soulful pair, who, as bassist and drummer, put the "riddim" into the rhythm section. As producers and composers, the tunes and tones they use aren't only of the Kingston kind, however. ...
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| Dub Revolutionaries Meet The Mad Professor CD (2004)
$12.25
If any players could take credit for the paring-down of reggae that resulted in dub, it would be the erstwhile Peter Tosh rhythm section of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. Dunbar, especially, is a drumming karateka--lean, muscular, ultimately flexible, highly ...
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| In Good Company CDs (2001)
$12.65 
No rhythm section in history has impacted across the world's music scene as has Sly & Robbie. Their innovative playing style, studio experimentation, and pure production genius has propelled music to a whole new level, and their influence remains undiminished ...
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| Taxi Fare CD (1986)
$13.65
Sly Dunbar (drums) and Robbie Shakespear (bass) have turned up on more reggae recordings than probably anyone else. They've also recorded with Bob Dylan, Gwen Guthrie, Bill Laswell/Material, and Herbie Hancock, among others. As a rhythm team, they balance certainty ...
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| Rhythm Remains The Same: Sly & Robbie Greets Led Zeppelin CD (2005)
$13.89
Someone once inquired if reggae artists were ever influenced by arena rock. Jackie Mittoo's version of "Whiter Shade of Pale" suggested they were at least paying some attention, but beyond that, well, it's a good question. Those inclined to dig ...
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| Mambo Taxi CD (1997)
$8.79
MAMBO TAXI, Sly and Robbie's 1997 album, is such a brilliant idea that one wonders why nobody ever did it before. Rhythm section and production team Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare pepper this album liberally with reggae and dub reworkings ...
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| Many Moods Of Sly, Robbie & The Taxi Gang CD (1991)
$9.79
MANY MOODS OF SLY, ROBBIE AND THE TAXI GANG, a 1991 album, shows off the powerhouse rhythm section and production team in a familiar setting, leading sessions for various singers under the guise of their own Taxi Records imprint. After ...
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| Anniversary CD (2007)
$13.65
Although it was released two years after Sly & Robbie celebrated their Taxi label's 25th anniversary with a worldwide tour, the 2007 release Anniversary must have originally been planned to cash in on the festivities, since it's hard to find ...
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 Sly & Robbie Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Sly & Robbie songs: Slave Driver Dub, Jah Jah Children Dub, Jah Jah Man, Liquidation Dub, Stone Age Dub, Top Ranking Style Dub. More music songs Channel One in Dub, Going Downtown Dub, Herb, Rock Me in Dub, Roots Dub, Thompson in Dub, Burial Dub, African Roots. More music songs Sitting and Watching Lyrics, Theme from Mission: Impossible Lyrics, Pull up to the Bumper Lyrics, Call the Police Lyrics, Theme From Mission Impossible Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Theme From "Mission Impossible" Lyrics.
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Sly & Robbie Biography
Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare are not only the most renowned rhythm section in reggae, they're among the most celebrated groovemeisters in all of pop music. The Kingston pair starting playing together in the mid-1970s, when reggae was really hitting its stride, and they quickly became in-demand session players. In Jamaica they graced the recordings of countless artists, from Lee "Scratch" Perry to Peter Tosh. After Sly & Robbie's fame spread to the US and UK in the '80s, they were recruited by Bob Dylan, Grace Jones and other pop/rock stars. The duo's own project Taxi, featuring various guest vocalists, was a reggae crossover success that displayed Dunbar and Shakespeare's growing technological facility as well as their vaunted rhythmic prowess.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Sly Dunbar | Sizzla, Black Uhuru, Culture, Dennis Brown, Buju Banton, Beres Hammond, Luciano, Bounty Killer, Peter Tosh | | Robbie Shakespeare | Black Uhuru, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, Culture, Dennis Brown, Bounty Killer, Augustus Pablo, Gregory Isaacs, Joe Cocker | | Dean Fraser | Buju Banton, Dennis Brown, Luciano, Beres Hammond, Morgan Heritage, Culture, Black Uhuru, Burning Spear, Anthony B. | | Robert Lyn | Luciano, Dennis Brown, Burning Spear, Buju Banton, Half Pint, Beres Hammond, Sugar Minott, Culture, Marcia Griffiths | | Nambo Robinson | Burning Spear, Luciano, Black Uhuru, Beres Hammond, Israel Vibration, Sugar Minott, Morgan Heritage, Anthony B., Freddie McGregor |
Worked With
Bounty Killer, Max Romeo, Heptones, George Nooks, Frenchie, Bob Dylan
Contemporaries
Dennis Brown, Steel Pulse, Culture, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Augustus Pablo, Grace Jones, Scientist, The Congos, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mikey Dread, Mad Professor, Wailing Souls, Adrian Sherwood, Jimmy Riley
Followers
Shaggy, Beenie Man, DJ Spooky, Talking Heads, Massive Attack, Luciano, DJ Shadow, Tortoise, Maxi Priest, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Howie B, Gang of Four, Roni Size, Goldie, Big Youth
Influences
James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sly & the Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, Toots & the Maytals, King Tubby, The Skatalites, The Wailers, The Funk Brothers
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