Linton Kwesi Johnson - Dread Beat An' Blood (1978)

Posted by Sisca Cute Love U in , , on Tuesday, March 25, 2008

«[…] Dread Beat An’ Blood was Linton Kwesi Johnson’s debut recording, the first time his political poetry had been accompanied by the powerful beats of reggae. This new form of music, revolutionary in terms of language, content and style, came to be known as ‘dub poetry’ and Johnson is still the foremost and most uncompromising practitioner of the art. Using the patois of Jamaican speech, Johnson

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