(A)Live in Concert

Performer: Burning Spear
Engineer: Michel Sauvage; Pete Slauson; Simon Roberts; Tim Roberts
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Eugene Grey (guitar); James "Hal" Smith (trumpet); Stephen Stewart (keyboards); Nelson Miller (drums). Recording information: Maritime Hall; WOMAD Festival, Reading, England. The veteran reggae performer Burning Spear is heard here at the top of his game, performing at the 1997 WOMAD festival backed by a world-class band on a selection of classics including "Slavery Days" and "Marcus Garvey," as well as later songs such as the Grateful Dead-referencing "Play Jerry." The rhythms are energetic, swaying, and punctuated by a sprightly horn section, while the former Winston Rodney belies his four-decade-and-counting music business career by giving his all to songs such as the bubbling "Creation" and the righteous "Red, Green and Gold."

Burning Spear (born Winston Rodney) was originally a protege of his neighbor Bob Marley, but even his earliest music exhibited his characteristically unique and intense style. His lyrical concerns--black culture and history, a hybrid form of Pan-Africanism, Garveyism and Rasta tenets, and (especially) universal love--have been consistently and powerfully expressed throughout his lengthy recording career. Perhaps most memorable is his 1975 breakthrough masterpiece, MARCUS GARVEY, where he emerged as one of the most distinctive and original talents in the history of reggae.

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