LINTON KWESI JOHNSON - FORCES OF VICTORY

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FORCES OF VICTORY


TRACKLIST


1.-Want Fi Goh Rave 4:20
2.-It Noh Funny 3:42
3.-Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem) 3:50
4.-Independent Intavenshan 3:20
5.-Fite Dem Back 4:27
6.-Reality Poem 4:44
7.-Forces Of Vicktry 4:56
8.-Time Come


Genre:Reggae
Style:Reggae, Dub Poetry
Year:1979




BACKING VOCALS: Dennis Bovell, Vivian Weathers, Winston Bennett
BASS: Vivian Weathers, Floyd Lawson
DRUMS: Jah Bunny, Winston Crab Curniffe
LEAD GUITAR: John Kpaiye
RHYTHM GUITAR: John Kpaiye
TROMBONE: Rico
PIANO: Dennis Bovell, Webster Johnson
ORGAN: Webster Johnson, The Invisible One
PERCUSSION: Fari, Jah Bunny, Winston Crab Curniffe
HARMONICA: Julio Finn
FLUGELHORN: Dick Cuthell


PRODUCED BY: LKJ
MIXED BY: Dennis Bovell, John Caffrey





Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ) (born 24 August 1952, Chapelton, Jamaica) is a British-based author and dub poet. Johnson's poetry makes clever use of the unstandardised transcription of Jamaican Patois and, allied to the Jamaican "toasting" tradition, is regarded as a precursor of rap. He became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Classics series.




Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of the finest Reggae poets ever and he practically invented the genre of Reggae Dub poetry. This is his finest album and perfectly encapsulates what it was like as a black person living in a racially unfriendly Britain in the late 1970s, when the British National Party was on the rise. ' Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)' is a stunning song/poem that perfectly sums up what Linton is about and how he awx like a spokesperson for a generation of disaffected Black youth. The beats are brilliantly funky and very dubby at the same time. Fantastic British Reggae music that's up there with the best Jamaican political & socially conscious reggae.