Resistance [Bonus Tracks] [Digipak]

Performer: Burning Spear
Engineer: Errol Brown; Errol Brown
Producer: Burning Music Production
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Burning Spear (vocals, percussion); Burning Spear; Michael "Mick" Wilson, Devon Bradshaw, Michael Wilson (guitar); Richard G. Johnson, Richard Johnson, Robert Lyn, Robby Lyn (keyboards); Anthony Bradshaw (bass guitar); Lenford Richards (guitar); Dean Fraser, Glen DaCosta, Herman Marquis (saxophone, horns); David Madden, Chico Chin, Bobby Ellis (trumpet, horns); Nambo Robinson, Barry Bailey, Calvin Cameron (trombone, horns); Peter Ashbourne, Winston Wright, Bobby Kalphat (keyboards); Nelson Miller (drums); Alvin Haughton (percussion). Audio Mixer: Errol Brown . Audio Remixer: Michel Sauvage. Recording information: Tuff Gong Recording Studio, Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica. Burning Spear's 16th release (including compilations, live releases, and dub albums) was his second for indie label Heartbeat and represented a fresh start for the reggae giant. During this time, Spear (a.k.a. Winston Rodney) relocated from his home of Jamaica to Queens, New York with his wife in order to get away from unscrupulous music industry types and to start managing himself. Much like his previous records, Spear surrounded himself with an army of crack studio musicians, including Jamaican instrumental legend Dean Fraser on saxophone. Much of this album is about Rastafarianism, a subject Spear has devoted significant time to on previous efforts. "Jah Say" and "Jah Feeling" are the most obvious markers of Spear's unwavering faith, but other songs such as the rhythmically bubbling "The Force" and the brassy "We Been There" drive Rodney's points home just as effectively. "Love to You" is the only reggae anachronism, thanks to blues-flavored guitar riffs that play off the song's very unreggae-like horn arrangements. Spear's autonomy paid off as RESISTANCE earned him his first Grammy nomination. A great pairing of Winston Rodney vocals and horn section. A Grammy nominee, this boasts the added bonus of a wonderful nonpolitical piece "Love to You." [The 2004 edition adds bonus tracks.] ~ Ron Wynn

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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