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Count Smith the Blues Blaster

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First-generation Kingston sound system of the early 1950s, named in histories alongside Tom the Great Sebastian and Sir Nick the Champ; it played US rhythm and blues on the downtown lawn circuit, and Bunny Lee recalled it later amalgamating with Coxsone's Downbeat.

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Louder Than War sound-system history; Yaawd Media; Bunny Lee recollections.

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Looking back at Jamaica's sound system history

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Louder Than War history feature reference.

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Story · ProbableFoundation sounds before the famous three

Long before Coxsone, Duke Reid and Prince Buster became reggae's founding trinity, a wider field of 1950s operators built the culture — and its DIY engineering habit followed Jamaican emigrants to London.

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