The 1970’s were an extremely fertile era for music. In America, progressive soul and funk broke new ground while London spawned the punk rock scene and Kingston, Jamaica gave the world roots reggae.
It’s been more than 10 years since Mano Negra broke up, but the blood of that Clash-inflected Euro-rock band still pumps through former frontman Manu Chao’s veins. Wielding an orange Gretsch guitar ...