Marcus Garvey / Garvey’s Ghost

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Total Tracks: 20   Total Length: 72:11

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One of the top five albums of the century.

JoppaRasta

Rodney proves himself a powerful Shaman, a person with connections on the other side. The percussion and rhythm guitar along with the backup vocals are among the best ever recorded. You have a man pleading for his life and his place in society. All at once, charming, hypnotic, enchanting, intense, positive and yet so simple as to be profound. Very easy to listen to. It is one of those classic instances where the artist puts everything he has into the album and it ends up being unlike anything else ever recorded from that time until now.

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Classic Among Classics

DanielEsq

One of the greatest, grittiest records ever pressed. Burning Spear's voice is a gruff miracle. The lyrics bring to mind an imagined revolutionary battle, with smoke from cannons rising into the morning air, somewhere in the distance. Uber-classic.

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Better Than The Rest

a_boy_alone

This is a two-album combination on one disc of Spear's 1976 album "Marcus Garvey" and the dub album of it, "Garvey's Ghost." You can't get any better classic roots reggae than MG, and the dub album adds a whole new dimension to all of the songs. Highly recommended, top-notch in all respects.

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