Steel An' Skin
Reggae Is Here Once Again
Steel 'N' Skin were something special: an Afro-Caribbean workshop band based in 1970s London, founded by Peter Blackman, featuring ex-members of 20th Century Steel Band (famously Grandmaster Flash's favorite). Comprised of young nightclub musicians born in Ghana, Nigeria, St. Kitts, Trinidad and the UK, the group gave concerts and workshops in London schools, expanding nationwide to prisons, psychiatric hospitals and summer festivals. This wasn't social work disguised as music or music disguised…