ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ROOTS REGGAGE SINGERS IS MY FAVORITE WINSTON RODNEY AKA BURNING SPEAR. I REMEBER THE FIRST TIME I SAW HIM LIVE AT PROSPECT PARK BANDSHELL TWO YEARS AGO, WHAT AN ULTIMATE HIGH! HIS BAND IS THE BEST AND I COULD FEEL THE WORDS IN EACH SONG HE CHANTED WITH COMPLETE POSITIVE VIBRATIONS. HIS MUSIC SPREADS A POSITIVE VIBE THROUGH MY SOUL AND ITS LIKE READING A HISTORY BO...
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So for some reason, I can listen to any music I want at work, but not reggae. I don't get it. It's not like the moment reggae music comes on, I just can't hold back and have to spark up a doobie. I'm pretty sure they would be down with Megadeath, even if it made me grow horns, but Reggae is just not good work place music. I don't know why I put Burning Spear up in the tag stuff except that ...
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there isn't nearly enough by Burning Spear on here, despite his forty years as a recording artist, starting with "Door Peeper" for Coxsone, and more recently winning Grammy Awards for his self-produced albums. While his Studio One tracks have acquired an influence far in excess of their initial sales, many of them being repeatedly versioned, some say that his late seventies records showed him a...
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you want to make sure it's memorable, but in my view very few if any debuts can come up to the standard of *this*
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hope you are too. Happy New Year friends!!! xXOXx
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..Winston Rodney, is the Burning Spear! Check out this fairly recent footage of the Spear Burning with a very tight back up band...the horn section is especially on hit. But you have to wait 'till the end for the conch solo...enjoy! the video does work..click it.
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The song I was going crazy for a week trying to find..BIG thanks to Fijah,
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| 2 Old Marcus Garvey |
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| 3 Pick Up the Pieces |
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