The Rhyth-O-Matics were one of California's first established ska bands. They released the album "Walking in the Shadow" in 1985 and had a big radio hit in 1988 with a 12" single Skatalation / Trickster.
In 1998 the band leader Jimmy Foot re-released the album and single together on a CD-R with an unreleased track called Kinzenge. This download here is for the CD-R version with the added tracks.
1 Afro/Ska
2 Walking in the Shadow
3 Kufilisika Sio Kilema
4 Kweleetonga
5 Roscoe
6 Zonga Andowe
7 El Toro
8 Thina
9 Skatalation
10 Kinzenge
11 Trickster
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Not only did he re-release his old recordings on his own label Bongo Boy Music, but he recorded a whole new album called Ghost Skankers which was also released on a CD-R with a computer-printed cover which sometimes got stuck to the disc itself.
1 Ghost Skankers/Riders in the Sky
2 Miami Skyline
3 Ska Slaughter
4 Think About Your Life
5 Surfinfast Ska
6 Wagon Train Ska
7 Phoenix City
8 Mojuba
9 Botyana
10 Skankers Island
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Then, in that same year Jimmy Foot collaborated with some musicians under the band name "Sky Rangers" which had more of a 'country' influence and they also released a CD-R on Bongo Boy records which had that same problem of the computer-printed inlay sticking to the CD itself.
1 Home on the Range
2 Riders in the Sky
3 My Mama
4 No Woman, No Cry
5 Little Dogies
6 Red River Reggae
7 Wagon Train SKA
8 Just a Man & His Guitar
9 Sky Ranger Squeeze
10 I'm a Rider
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Some of Jimmy Foot's other projects you might want to check out:
Reggae Jackson - Smash Hits (1986)
Jimmy Foot - The Instrumentals
And he has many solo albums. The album Rhythm Addict is mostly a rock-n-roll record but it has a ska song called "Rockin' Ska Man" that is along the lines of the sound from these earlier recordings.
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