The Jolly Boys are a mento band from Port Antonio, Jamaica. It was formed in 1945 and had great commercial success in the late 1980s and 1990s among reggae and world music fans. They released a new album in 2010 Great Expectation and are currently the house band at GeeJam, a hotel in Port Antonio.
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Skavoovie and the Epitones
Ska band
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Ernest Ranglin
Jamaican guitarist and composer
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Headley Bennett
Jamaican saxophonist
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Inner Circle
Jamaican reggae group
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Earl "Chinna" Smith
Jamaican musician
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Errol Holt
Jamaican musician
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The African Brothers
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Hank Penny
American musician
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Sugar Minott
Jamaican musician
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Dwight Pinkney
Jamaican musician
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Lloyd Knibb
musician
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Mikey Chung
Jamaican musician
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Carlene Davis
Jamaican musician
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Junior Murvin
Jamaican reggae musician
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Tyrone Downie
Jamaican keyboardist and pianist
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Clive Hunt
Jamaican musician
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Jah Jerry Haynes
Jamaican guitarist
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Traffic
English rock band
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The Dillards
American bluegrass band
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Count Ossie
drummer
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Ruddy Thomas
Jamaican musician
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Half Pint
Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae singer
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Cedric Brooks
Jamaican reggae musician
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Lloyd Parks
Jamaican musician
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Wilco
American alternative rock band
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Doyle Lawson
American musician
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Roland Alphonso
Ska musician
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Peter Tosh
Jamaican reggae singer and musician
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Gipsy Kings
French-Spanish musical group
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Charles Blanvillain
reggae musician
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Uziah Thompson
Jamaican musician
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The Congos
Jamaican band
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Jimmy Gaudreau
American musician and songwriter
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Burning Spear
Jamaican roots reggae musician
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Doug Dillard
American musician, composer and banjoist (1937-2012)
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Mutabaruka
Jamaican dub poet
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Geoffrey Chung
Jamaican record producer
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Rosko Gee
Jamaican bassist
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Ralph Stanley
American singer
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Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
musical artist
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Foggy Mountain Boys
American bluegrass band
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Steely & Clevie
Jamaican dancehall reggae production duo
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Byron Lee
Jamaican musician
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Val Bennett
Jamaican jazz musician
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Hank Marvin
English musician; guitarist for the Shadows
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Damian Marley
Jamaican singer
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Chalice
reggae
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Carl Wilson
American musician; original member of The Beach Boys (1946-1998)
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Beres Hammond
Jamaican musician
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Zap Pow
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moe.
American psychedelic rock jam band
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Duo de Twang
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Roger McGuinn
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Carlos Malcolm
Jamaican musician
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Old Crow Medicine Show
Americana string band based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Valentine Chin
Jamaican musician
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Jerry Donahue
American musician