Culture
Joseph Hill, a Studio One session percussionist who'd played in the label's house band the Soul Defenders, formed Culture in Kingston in 1976 with Albert "Ralph" Walker and Roy "Kenneth" Dayes, and their debut single, "Two Sevens Clash," turned a numerological rhyme — the sevens of 7/7/77 — into roots reggae's most famous doomsday record, so widely believed that much of Kingston reportedly stayed indoors that day. Hill's clipped, keening tenor and the group's close three-part harmonies, cut for producer Joe Gibbs and engineer Errol Thompson, became a blueprint for vocal-harmony roots reggae that carried Rastafari politics and prophecy as naturally as melody.
we haven’t charted Culture yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.