Video: Linton Kwesi Johnson-Dread Beat An Blodd-Live in paris

Every Friday night at 12:00 I play one of my favorite albums and bring you the tracks and background on that album. Tonight it’s Linton Kwesi Johnson ’s Dread Beat an’ Blood , recorded in 1978. Johnson was known as one of the founding fathers of reggae dub poetry. He was born in a small rural town in Jamaica and raised in London. Growing up in south London, Johnson’s poetry and later his music was infused with the realities of that era’s racism and poverty. The eight tracks on this LP are intelligent and streetwise. [...]