The Sound Track to The Harder They Come repeatedly makes the all-time top 100 albums in lists. And, it's well deserving. I have a CD of the Melodians (who recorded Rivers of Babylon) on the soundtrack. It's definitely a reggae song, although I heard a woman sing in unaccompanied at a folk festival a few years ago. Worked like Bethoven's 5th, unaccompanied.

Reggae is extremely popular in many parts of Africa, too. When my wife and I were on the Ivory Coast three years ago, they had a great reggae band playing in the lounge of the hotel where we stayed one night.

The tenor in my gospel quartet is from Kingston, and has his own reggae band. We had a great time one night a surprise birthday for his wife, doing old rhythm and blues with a little bit of a reggae touch, with some black gospel sounds mixed in. There's a lot of reggae gospel, too..

My kinda music, Ron