Winston "Burning Spear" Rodney has been rather neglected here lately. A veteran Jamaican star, born and brought up on the rural north coast many miles from the urban heart of Kingston, who cut his first record for Coxsone Dodd in 1968 - "Door Peeper", and who tended in his early years to prefer recording with Linstead born "country reggae" musicians the Soul Defenders, rather than Dodd's more urban sounding Sound Dimension, it was seven years before his name became known outside the reggae cognoscenti, with his albums "Marcus Garvey" and "Man In The Hills", produced by Lawrence "Jack Ruby" Lindo, and released worldwide by Island.

The success of these gave rise to some UK gigs in October 1977, from which came the regulation live album. Backing musicians were top UK reggae band Aswad, augmented by already veteran JA trumpeter Bobby Ellis and percussion from Spear's long-time collaborator Philip Fullwood. This track was first released on "MITH" - ""Lion"

A couple of years later, he featured briefly in Ted Bafaloukos' frankly patchy film "Rockers", a 1978 low budget retelling of "Bicycle Thieves" crossed with "Robin Hood", featuring "acting" performancs from the likes of Gregory Isaacs, Leroy Smart and Jacob Miller, sitting by the side of the Caribbean at night, singing "Jah No Dead", accompanied by various insects and the lapping of the waves