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    Winston Grennan (1944-2000) was a Jamaican drummer famous for his session work from 1962 to 1973 in Jamaica and later in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. He worked with many famous musicans in Jamaica and the United States.

    He is most famous for creating the "one drop rhythm" in the late 1960s. The beat places the kick/snare emphasis on the third beat . The One Drop came from a combination of ska and rocksteady (a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966 which had influences from ska and influenced the creation of reggae).

    Some of the bands he played with and recorded with are The Paragons, The Heptones, and The Gaylads and also singers such as Alton Ellis, Delroy Wilson, Bob Andy, Ken Boothe, Phyllis Dillon Paul Simon, Eddie Kendrics, Peter Paul & Mary, Booker T. and the MGs, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Garland Jeffreys, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, The Ojays, Minnie Ripperton, Herbie Mann, The Maytals, Bob Marley, The Wailers (after Bob Marley), Jimmy Cliff, Deamond Dekker, Bunny Lee, Tommy McCook, The Third Worls Allstars, Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters, Garland Jeffreys, Glen Brown / King Tubby, Delroy Wilson, Glen Brown, The Melodians, Clancy Eccles, Freddy Gardner, Slim Smith, and many many others.

    He had more than twelve of hes own albums, and he recorded with Atlantic Records, CBS Records, Decca Records, Discovery Records, Elektra Records, Island Records, MGM Records, Motown, RCA Records, Swegway Records, Trojan Records, and Warner Bros. Records.

    This is Winston playing his "one-drop" on "Running Away" from Bob Marley's album "Kaya"


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    This is Winston live in Austin, Texas in 1997 doing "Carpenter Rebuild" with "The Meditations".


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