Sufferers of St James
Sonny Roach and the Sampson brothers


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By Kim Johnson

"A Tune Boom once strike a pain in my heart," Tripoli panman Lloyd Butcher once reminisced. "It make me feel very shame in the road."

That happened one Carnival in the late 1940s when the great south St James steelband, Tripoli, was jamming in the road, things nice, two blocks of people moving to the music.

"You now feeling to beat pan," described Butcher.

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