Bosstones Throwdown and Long Live Desmond Dekker!Bosstones Throwdown and Long Live Desmond Dekker!
Bosstones Throwdown and Long Live Desmond Dekker!
A not-so-subtle subtheme of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’s reunion in their hometown this week is the veneration of a ska, rocksteady, and reggae trailblazer for Bob Marley. The Bosstones’s latest radio cut, “Don’t Worry Desmond Dekker,”‘ references the onetime welder who sang the classic “Israelites” and was named in Paul McCartney’s ska-flavored “Ob-La-Di.”