BURNING SPEAR / MARCUS GARVEY - GARVEYS GHOST
BURNING SPEAR
marcus garvey - garveys ghost
CD Album
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Description

This disc brings together Marcus Garvey, Burning Spear's debut album, with its dub counterpart, entitled Garvey's Ghost. The resulting package is one of the pillars of roots reggae, an album packed with thick, heavy grooves and uncompromising religious and political messages. Although this Mango reissue has been criticized as sonically weaker than the Jamaican original, it will sound plenty dread to all but the most critical ears. Songs like the title track, "Slavery Days" and "Give Me" (with its remarkably well-integrated flute part) all tremble with the intensity of Winston Rodney's dark voice, and some of the dub versions (in particular "Black Wa-Da-Da," based on "The Invasion") number among the most frightening ever created. There are no sing-along melodies here; Burning Spear has always been more about setting up a relentless groove and using it to get the words across. But that groove is glorious, and it's more than sufficient to support the significant weight of the lyrics.

Details

Genre: Music > World > Reggae
Released: Mon 16 Nov 1992
Catalogue Number: 8467572

Track Listing

1.  Marcus Garvey
2.  Slavery Days
3.  The Invasion
4.  Live Good
5.  Give Me
6.  Old Marcus Garvey
7.  Tradition
8.  Jordan River
9.  Red, Gold And Green
10.  Resting Place
11.  The Ghost
12.  I And I Survive
13.  Black Wadada
14.  John Burns Skank
15.  Brain Food
16.  Farther East Of Jack
17.  2000 Years
18.  Dread River
19.  Workshop
20.  Reggaelation

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