Review
The Best of Burning Spear: The Millennium Collection
Release Date: 08/13/2002 12:00
Reviewed by Lloyd Bradley
When Burning Spear auditioned at Studio One in the late ’60s, Jamaican music had yet to hear anything as overtly African and uncompromisingly Rasta. The label didn’t know what to do with the music, and delayed releasing it so long that singer Winston Rodney left Kingston to farm in St. Anns. But the business eventually caught up, and under the guidance of Ocho Rios producer Jack Ruby, Burning Spear dominated the late ’70s with the most profoundly affecting roots music ever made. This set brings together the best of that smoky, weary, hauntingly spiritual repertoire, with “Social Living,” “Dry and Heavy,” “Door Peep” and the magnificent, historical “Marcus Garvey.”
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