Credit: Photo By John Carrico

Big Youth & Earl “Chinna” Smith, Club Foot, 1983

The Caribbean musicians were playing Austin heavily by the early Eighties, always mesmerizing — not to mention smokin’.

This article appears in January 28 • 2000.

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