Very late to this but I have to say your list of names is a bit off. Save for Kareem, not one of those people are baby boomers. I a boomer is classified as someone born between 1946 and 1964.

Not exactly sure what your point is. I never said she was shit nor should she be discounted. She performed Ska songs. Ska is the grandmother of reggae in a sense but they are most certainly not the same.

Well I'm not really sure what you're saying here since the majority of the artists that Richie and those at his label have interacted with weren't on the label.

Apologies, I should have made it clear, I'm not talking about the actual main characters. I'm talking about the reference to black music as if it wasn't current at the time, thus the lack of interaction with current for that time black musicians, save for Hannibal, who is fictional.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I don't have a problem with the diversity of the main characters, as I'm sure it reflected the demographic realities within the music industry at the time. My issues are with which musicians are chosen as focal points. That's all. The dearth of female artists makes no sense considering…

Yes I am aware of that but ska is not the same as the reggae that the Wailers performed, at least to most Jamaicans and the rest of the world. Most Americans never heard Rocksteady before modern Reggae came on the scene. And while 'My boy lollipop' did reach #2, it can possibly be classified as nothing more than a…

Yep. This show sure likes to trade in those same old, hackneyed tropes: the magical negro musician who provides inspiration to white musicians, while showing no technical know how ;and the strong, highly competent but marginalized woman who helps broaden the view and disciplines the white male protagonist.

Nope. That was not one of his sons despite the fact that all of them except for one is a reggae artist. Might be off on that. What's funny is that his son Julian is almost his doppelganger save for the talent. lol
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You know what, you're absolutely right about that. That's another strange trope of American storytelling. White ignorance to non-white things. Its almost as if there is this effort to completely deny any proximity to blackness or perceived otherness. Quite frankly I do wonder why?
Is the implication that all white…

You're spot on about the imagery and the actual tangible influence of the music.

I give white people way more credit than that. Plus Richie has repeatedly shown an encyclopedic knowledge of black music in damn near all its forms.

Thank you. I guess there will be no mention of how Eric Clapton just a year later covered 'I shot the Sheriff and it charted at No. 1 on Billboard, whilst the 'Burnin' album from which it originated only reached the mid-100s.

You have no idea. lol The show is exactly what you say it is, at least for now.

Not trying to be that guy arguing for diversity, but as a fan of music from the 70s I just find it really odd that to this point Black musicians and the music they created are treated as if they're some sort of historical reference point in the 70's! Its all quite odd. How could Clark not know who Isaac Hayes was when…