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⚫️🟡🟢⚫️🎼 #JAMAICAN #FOLKMUSIC "Emmanuel Road", by the Jamaican Folk Singers, is a song and a children's game, usually played by Jamaican Children, during the colonial and post emancipation era. The game highlights a time when Jamaicans worked as stone cutters, skilled laborers who manually cut and shaped limestone or other stone materials used in building construction, especially during the colonial and post-emancipation periods..They played a crucial role in building infrastructure, homes, ch

I research every song before I record it - as a songwriter, I like having some context for where/when the song was written and who wrote it. I learned that Jamaica Farewell actually comes from a genre of Jamaican folk music called mento. Mento is related to Trinidadian calypso but is traditionally played with folk instruments - banjo, acoustic guitar, hand percussion, fiddle, fife. Kind of like creole bluegrass reggae. So cool! So naturally, that helped me select the banjolele for this tune - I