Double Tiger and Sly & Robbie Team Up for New Single Walk Away

Lowell "Sly" Dunbar was 73 years old when he died on January 26, 2026, leaving behind a rhythmic legacy so deeply woven into Jamaican music history that nearly every roots session recorded since 1980 carries some trace of his Taxi Records fingerprint. That weight is impossible to ignore when listening to Double Tiger's new single "Walk Away," released March 27 on Easy Star Records.

"Walk Away" is Jay Spaker's third single in a year and his second collaboration built around the Sly & Robbie rhythmic aesthetic. The track pushes a heavy riddim underscored by blaring horns, with Spaker's plaintive vocals riding on top. Alongside the vocal cut, the release arrives packaged with a dub version mixed by Craig Welsch, known in the scene as Dub Fader of 10 Ft. Ganja Plant.

Spaker's return to the Sly & Robbie framework began last summer with "Yearning," his first music since 2020's The Journey LP, which pulled in Kingston sessions featuring Mikey Chung on guitar and Robbie Lyn on keys alongside the legendary rhythm section. "Walk Away" continues directly from that creative run, with the group also releasing "Love Garden" in November 2025 through Easy Star Records as part of a sustained creative stretch after years away.

For selectors building a set that honors the Taxi legacy, this two-version release offers real programming flexibility. The vocal cut works in a roots progression or alongside a live band; Welsch's dub mix, engineered with the low-end weight and horn drops that characterize his work with 10 Ft. Ganja Plant, is built for the instrumental stretches where a sound system earns its crowd. For reggae-rock and rub-a-dub aficionados, both versions are positioned as immediate crate additions, with production choices — heavy bass, blaring horns, and a dub-ready mix — suited for live band sets and dancehall dub sessions alike. Both are streaming now through Easy Star Records' distribution on major platforms.

The recent passing of Sly Dunbar adds particular poignancy to any release drawing on his rhythmic approach, bringing renewed attention to rhythm-section-focused work and the lineage it represents. For listeners whose collections are anchored in Taxi-era classics — the choppy snare patterns and locked-in bass of "Boops," the session precision that Sly and Robbie brought to records from Peter Tosh to Grace Jones — hearing that sensibility carried forward by a Brooklyn act on Easy Star carries real emotional resonance right now.

The dub mix is being marketed specifically toward selectors and sound-system DJs intended to run alongside instrumental and dub-heavy sets, which is exactly the context where this kind of tribute-by-production lands hardest. "Walk Away" is a fresh release doing the work that the Taxi rhythms always did best: giving a great vocal somewhere spacious and serious to live.