With International Reggae Day turning 25, we look at great reggae covers of country tunes by Toots & the Maytals, Max Romeo, and more
Toots and the Maytals' cover of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is one of the 10 best country reggae covers.In June 1964, a country music fan in Jamaica who regularly listened to Nashville’s 50,000-watt radio station WSM sent a letter to the editor of, who proclaimed it the first such correspondence they had ever received from someone tuning into the country station from the Caribbean island nation.
, which was produced by the mercurial genius Lee “Scratch” Perry. Four years earlier, Romeo cut a lovely version of Jim Reeves’ weeper “Is It Really Over” that emphasized his silky smooth vocals and underpinned them with walking bass and percussive guitar strums.The smoothed-out Countrypolitan of Jim Reeves was a popular choice for cover songs among Jamaican reggae and ska performers.
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