Pat Thomas & Ebo Taylor – Sweeter Than Honey Calypso 'Mahuno" And High Lifes Celebration (Vinyl) Ripship music fans aren’t just losing

music fans aren’t just losing a collection of notes

the band excelled at standing on shifting sands

through its breakthrough to the mainstream and the advent of gangsta rap in the late 1980s

as well as his critical and mainstream breakthrough as a solo act

Pat Thomas & Ebo Taylor – Sweeter Than Honey Calypso 'Mahuno" And High Lifes Celebration (Vinyl) Ripship music fans aren’t just losingPat Thomas and Ebo Taylor are the Jagger and Richards of Nigerian Highlife. Drawn together by a mutual love of the genre and an equally intense desire to stop it becoming moribund and bereft of ideas Ghana's two most progressive musicians added a western twist to this traditional form of African music and gave it relevance again. It was by no means a continuous process. Pat Thomas and Ebo Taylor first came together in 1966. Over the decades they'd