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<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>nice article. i like GM and dude has mad records. he could step up his jamaican music game... you would be hard pressed to walk out of there with any rocksteady, ska (caltone, amalgamated, coxsone) or anything else jamaican for that matter. great store for the funk, jazz, hip hop digger though. </blockquote> Curious...Is the bay area just not that great a spot for jamaican music? i've seen jinx post on here that he's not interested in reggae finds posts, b/c he just never sees it out there. </blockquote> The fact of the matter is that the Bay Area has a very small West Indian population. There are Jamaicans and Trinis here, but not at all like in other parts of the US (FL, Houston, etc.) and the community is non-existent in comparion to a place like Toronto. And picoandsepulveda, no one at Groove Merchant would mind at all if you name-dropped <a href="http://www.wisdomrecordssf.com">Wisdom Records</a>, another GREAT independent SF store with a very focused stock, as GM and WR don't carry any of the same stuff (but please feel free to start a new thread praising those dudes, as they deserve it). </blockquote> You'd be hard-pressed to find Caltone, Almagamated and Coxsone 45's lying around stores here in Toronto. They just don't last (in addition to Caltone singles being very rare). I look for records 4-5 days a week and buy about a collecion every week and half and I own 2 Caltone records (the "Soul and Sound" trumpet instrumental and Phill Pratt's "Reach Out"). You're expectations are unrealistic. Kevin in Toronto.

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