Leading international music magazine Rolling Stone has listed three Jamaicans, Stephen ‘Cat’ Coore (#91), Ernie Ranglin (#179), and Earl “Chinna” Smith (#181) among the 250 greatest guitarists of all time.
In its most recent publication online, Rolling Stone said of the mastery of Coore, a foundation member of reggae band Third World: “He practically redefined the heights that reggae guitar could soar to, with searing solos that can stand alongside those of the most acclaimed rock guitar gods.”
The magazine went further in its tribute to Coore by asking readers to check out Coore’s string work on the 1982 hit by Third World “Try Jah Love” as an example of why his lead guitar playing is sometimes compared to that of Carlos Santana.
About Ranglin, the magazine wrote: “It’s a simple equation: No Ernest Ranglin, no reggae. Ranglin was a chief architect of Jamaican ska in the early 1960s, inventing the rhythm-guitar pattern of playing on the upbeat, paving the way for rocksteady and then reggae. He played on the first international ska hit, Millie Small’s 1964 smash “My Boy Lollipop”, and came up with the classic riff on Toots and the Maytals’ seminal “54-46 Was My Number”. Read More
Three Jamaicans on Rolling Stone’s list of greatest guitarists | Loop Barbados. (n.d.). Loop News. Retrieved October 16, 2023, from https://barbados.loopnews.com/content/three-jamaicans-rolling-stones-list-greatest-guitarists
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