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You Don't Care riddim

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Treasure Isle rocksteady rhythm built by Arthur "Duke" Reid around the Techniques' 1967 "You Don't Care" (an adaptation of a Curtis Mayfield / Impressions song), sometimes catalogued as the Barbwire riddim, and relicked for decades by producers from Winston Riley onward.

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Story · Well supportedOne riddim, many voices: how the version built Jamaican music

In Jamaica the rhythm track, not the finished song, is the durable unit of creativity.