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    The Brute Force Steel Band Music to Awaken the Ballroom Beast

    Smithsonian Folkways
      • 1. Say Si Si
      • 2. Take Me, Take Me
      • 3. Teach Me Tonight
      • 4. Take Me to Jamaica Where the Rum Comes From
      • 5. Beastly Meringue
      • 6. Now is the Hour
      • 7. Perfidio
      • 8. Carnival
      • 9. Pierconela
      • 10. Man Smart, Woman Smarter
      • 11. Steel Band Invention
      • 12. Gloria
      • 13. Green Faced Man
      • 14. Go March

      In the streets of Antigua shortly following WWII, The Brute Force Steel Band began as one of the ensembles that would pioneer Caribbean steel pan music. These calypsos, meringues, sambas, tangos and pops were a staple of the annual Carnival, which feature vocals by Calypsonian Herbert Howard and Lord Lally of Antigua.

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