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True to These ‘Tough’ Times, Toots and the Maytals’ Latest Promises Things Will Be Alright: Album Review

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Steve Bloom Toots Hibbert, Jamaica’s answer to James Brown, is 80 years old and still cranking out music that sounds as fresh as his original records in the mid-1960s.

His latest under the Toots and the Maytals banner, and first full-length since 2011: the album “Got to Be Tough.”Raised in Kingston, Toots’ career mirrored Bob Marley’s.

In fact, the two, whose careers can be traced back to 1962, were contemporaries. Both got their starts with producer Coxanne Dodd at Studio One, and while Marley toured and recorded with the Wailers, Toots headed the Maytals.But the two reggae pioneers went in different directions stylistically.

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