Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Burning Spear
Marcus Garvey/Garvey’s Ghost
(Universal/Island)
35th anniversary remaster of sacred JA text. Flyweight dub companion also included.
After an apprenticeship with producer Clement Dodd, like his peer Bob Marley before him, Winston Rodney, aka Burning Spear, achieved international renown with a sublime encapsulation of social and spiritual ferment that transcended its Jamaican context. Marcus Garvey sounds better now than ever, thanks to a bountifully bottomed remaster restoring the snap to Lawrence 'Jack Ruby' Lindo's production of The Black Disciples, featuring such supreme players as trombonist Vin Gordon, bassist Robbie Shakespeare, drummer Leroy Wallace and guitarist Earl 'Chinna' Smith. This is definitive roots: amid the dancing horns and molten rhythms, Spear mournfully declaims Rasta parables like Slavery Days, with added supplication from harmonisers Delroy Hines and Rupert Willington. Its final mix was reputedly sweetened for UK tastes by Island, but unlike Marley's Catch A Fire, no contention surrounds Marcus Garvey - a reggae touchstone, the perfect marriage of musical uplift and lyrical dread.
Keith Cameron
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 25/01/2011
Further Listening
Burning Spear - Rocking Time (Studio One, 1974)
Misty In Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision 79 (Tonpress, 1979)
King Tubby Meets Jacob Miller - In A Tenement Yard (Motion, 2006)
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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