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The Slickers

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Active until
  
1978

Awards
  
Grammy Hall of Fame

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Albums
  
Breakthrough, Many Rivers to Cross

Members
  
George Agard, Winston Bailey, Derrick Leapold Crooks

Genres
  
Ska/rocksteady, Reggae, World

Similar
  
Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, The Melodians, Desmond Dekker, The Pioneers

The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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The Slickers centred on Derrick Crooks, who had been one of the founding members of The Pioneers along with his brother Sydney. In the mid-1960s, The Slickers consisted of the Crooks brothers and Winston Bailey. Derrick was the only constant member, with Abraham Green joining the Crooks brothers at the time "Johnny Too Bad" was recorded. The Slickers have often been wrongly assumed to simply be an alias for The Pioneers due to their similar vocal stylings. The Slickers toured the United Kingdom and United States on the back of the success of "Johnny Too Bad", and continued until 1979, when they recorded the Breakthrough album, before splitting up.

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"Johnny Too Bad" was featured on the soundtrack for the 1972 Jimmy Cliff film, The Harder They Come, and later covered by the British reggae group UB40, the American reggae punk band Sublime, American power pop band The Silencers (1980, Columbia Records), and blues artist Taj Mahal. John Martyn covered it with additional lyrics on his 1980 album Grace and Danger. The song was also part of bluegrass artist Peter Rowan's live repertoire during much of the mid-1980s.

The Slickers Breakthrough by The Slickers reissued United Reggae

Albums

  • Many Rivers to Cross (1976), Klik
  • Breakthrough (1979), Tad's

  • The Slickers The Slickers Johnny Too Bad YouTube

    The Slickers The Slickers Breakthrough Vinyl LP Album at Discogs

    The Slickers The Slickers wheel and come again 1937 YardFlexcom

    The Slickers The Slickers Johnny Too Bad YouTube

    The Slickers The Slickers Johnny Too Bad YouTube

    The Slickers The Slickers Breakthrough Vinyl LP at Discogs

    Songs

    Johnny Too BadThe Harder They Come · 1972
    Zion CallingBreakthrough · 1979
    Dreams to RememberMany Rivers to Cross · 1976

    References

    The Slickers Wikipedia