To the extent that reggae singer Willi Williams is known beyond Jamaican music cognoscenti, it's generally for his classic 1977 track "Armagideon Time," a song covered by the Clash as the B side to their 1979 single "London Calling" and used prominently in the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. In the early 70s Williams joined a vibrant expat community of Jamaicans in Toronto—including Jackie Mitoo and Leroy Sibbles—but he continued traveling home to Kingston to make records.…
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