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In Defense of Ska Ep 103: Sammy Kay (The Forthrights, The East Los Three, The Fast Four)

In Defense of Ska Ep 103: Sammy Kay (The Forthrights, The East Los Three, The Fast Four)

FromIn Defense of Ska


In Defense of Ska Ep 103: Sammy Kay (The Forthrights, The East Los Three, The Fast Four)

FromIn Defense of Ska

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Length:
95 minutes
Released:
Jan 4, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

While still quite young and headstrong, Sammy Kay dove headfirst into the ska scene, doing touring work for The Skatalites, King Django, The Slackers and Westbound Train. He later played in trad ska/rocksteady group The Forthrights and then fronted his own group (featuring future members of Catbite): Sammy Kay and The Fast Four. In that time, he accumulated a lot of stories! Today we bring on Sammy to hear his tales. And he has quite the tales. He tells us about living with Vic Ruggiero, how he juggled working for so many bands at once, and how he helped to build a ska/rocksteady revival scene in Brooklyn in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Sammy gets deep and personal and talks about how he dealt with his addiction and how difficult that was. You don't want to miss this episode!  Support the show
Released:
Jan 4, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Ska no longer needs to be the butt of every joke. IDOS is flipping the narrative on this style of music that they love dearly. Hosts Aaron Carnes (author of "In Defense of Ska") and Adam Davis (Link 80, Omingone) chat with people in and outside of the ska scene to tell its stories, show its pervasiveness in culture, and defend it to their last dying breath.