World of Jamaican Music

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An illustrated map of the creators of Jamaican music and how they are connected.

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Clint Eastwood

Artist. Reggae, dancehall, roots

Active
1970s-1980s
Also known as
Robert Brammer, Robert Anthony Brammer, Clint Eastwood & General Saint

Clint Eastwood (Robert Brammer) is Trinity's younger brother, a deejay who took his name, like Trinity and Josey Wales, from the Western screen, and who with the London MC General Saint made the most successful deejay partnership of the early 1980s.

He followed Big Youth's cultural lead at first, and versioned the popular riddims at Channel One and for the Mighty Two, Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson, alongside his brother. He had Jamaican hits for Vivian "Yabby You" Jackson, Channel One and Gibbs, and his commentary on Wayne Wade's "Ballistic Dreadlocks" for Jackson was one of the deejay cuts released before the vocal, a sign of the deejays' rising power. His Sex Education album followed General Echo into slackness, and the Rough Guide counts him among the deejays who carried the music from the cultural chants of the mid-1970s to dancehall chat.

Henry "Junjo" Lawes then paired him with General Saint (Winston Hislop) of London's Front Line International sound. Riding Lawes's Roots Radics riddims for Greensleeves, the two began with "Tribute to General Echo," for the deejay whose life had just been taken; their debut album, Two Bad DJ, was one of the label's best sellers, and they reached the lower regions of the British pop chart. Their minor hit "Another One Bites the Dust" used Michael Prophet's "Gunman" riddim, and "Stop That Train" followed. Bradley hears the duo, with the other British MCs, in the early Lone Ranger.

Last updated October 14, 2026

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Notes

  1. Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd ed. (London: Rough Guides, 2004), 57, 265, 270.
  2. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 158, 162, 188.
  3. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 254, 270.
  4. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 254-55. Wikipedia dates Sex Education to 1980 and lists three albums from 1978, two of them for Bunny Lee and one for Channel One. "Clint Eastwood (musician)," Wikipedia, accessed October 7, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood_(musician).
  5. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 265, 270.
  6. Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 270. Wikipedia dates "Stop That Train" to 1983 and says it reached the UK chart. "Clint Eastwood (musician)."
  7. Lloyd Bradley, This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music (New York: Grove Press, 2001), 505-6.

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