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Reno Journal-Gazette, CD Review >>
The richly deep, half-spoken, half-sung onomatopoeic patois of Jamaican-born Briton Linton Kwesi Johnson (known as LKJ) sounds like no other voice in reggae. LKJ himself, an activist and professor who's been recognized as one of the U.K.'s top poets, is like no other singer in reggae. He's come a long way since releasing his debut more than 25 years ago and being derided as a corrupting influence. This, his second live album, is a great CD, combining a very fine and quite cheery backing band with his serious monotone and incendiary lyrics. Listeners are likely to be bobbing heads and tapping feet amid calls for forceful insurrection against fascists, racists and corrupt police and politicians. His trademark militancy is fervent and some of the lyrics can be violent, but there is also plenty of gentler though no less insistent material. 06/17/05 >> go there
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