Much like UB40, American reggae band Big Mountain brought a very
commercialized version of Jamaican music to the American mainstream
when their cover of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way" reached
the Top Ten in early 1994. To the band's credit, though, its three
albums contain reggae roots music combined with only several
R&B-ish covers, and the lineup includes two Jamaicans with excellent
credentials: rhythm guitarist Tony Chin and drummer Santa Davis --
both of whom played with Peter Tosh's band and the Soul Syndicate.
Big Mountain were originally formed in San Diego as the Rainbow Warriors.
After several years of dizzying lineup changes and two name changes --
first to Shiloh and...