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He founded his own label, Roaring Lion, which released records by top acts such as Buju Banton, Cutty Ranks and Sizzla, and paid tribute to America’s first Black president with a 2008 single “Barack Obama.”

Things between Cutty and Ruth get serious, and Simone and Dina must reconnect.

The show, he wrote in a CNN.com article, “is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters -- with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes -- is glamorous and ‘vintage.’”

Built around a sample of the dancehall great Cutty Ranks’ “Limb by Limb,” Jamie minces his source material into barely discernible syllables and launches it into hyperspace, leaving its component parts to ping off one another with a bouncy, exuberant energy.

August Kleinzahler is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, “Cutty, One Rock.”