Burning Spear

Trackimage Playbut Trackname Playbut Trackname
Marcus Garvey 03:30 Tools
Slavery Days 06:06 Tools
Old Marcus Garvey 03:58 Tools
Tradition 03:31 Tools
Jordan River 02:47 Tools
Man In The Hills 06:54 Tools
Live Good 03:13 Tools
Columbus 03:38 Tools
Resting Place 03:07 Tools
Give Me 03:12 Tools
Hail H.I.M. 04:16 Tools
Door Peep 02:40 Tools
African Teacher 04:01 Tools
Social Living 04:35 Tools
The Sun 00:00 Tools
I And I Survive 03:53 Tools
Throw Down Your Arms 04:06 Tools
No More War 00:00 Tools
Jah No Dead 02:10 Tools
Hail H.I.M - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
African Postman 05:24 Tools
Black Soul 00:00 Tools
Lion 03:15 Tools
Marcus Say Jah No Dead 00:00 Tools
Marcus Children Suffer 00:00 Tools
Road Foggy 00:00 Tools
Pick Up the Pieces 02:31 Tools
2000 Years 00:00 Tools
Institution 03:30 Tools
The Ghost (Marcus Garvey) 00:00 Tools
It's A Long Way Around 00:00 Tools
Black Disciples 00:00 Tools
Jah Kingdom 03:59 Tools
Dry and Heavy 00:00 Tools
Estimated Prophet 00:00 Tools
People Get Ready 03:23 Tools
Ethiopians Live It Out 00:00 Tools
Black Wa-Da-Da 00:00 Tools
Repatriation 03:42 Tools
Dry & Heavy 00:00 Tools
Follow Marcus Garvey 00:00 Tools
Invasion 00:00 Tools
Fire Down Below 03:32 Tools
It's Good 00:00 Tools
Black Wa-Da-Da (Invasion) 00:00 Tools
Jah See and Know 00:00 Tools
Mek We Dweet 00:00 Tools
I And I Survive (Slavery Days) 03:55 Tools
Mother 00:00 Tools
Hail H.I.M - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Jah a guh raid 00:00 Tools
Swell Headed 00:00 Tools
Get Ready 02:37 Tools
Civilized Reggae 00:00 Tools
Bad To Worst 00:00 Tools
Creation Rebel 00:00 Tools
Creation 00:00 Tools
Fire Man 04:12 Tools
Any River 00:00 Tools
He Prayed 00:00 Tools
Nyah Keith 00:00 Tools
Fittest Of The Fittest 00:00 Tools
Foggy Road 00:00 Tools
African Woman 00:00 Tools
Groovy 03:54 Tools
She's Mine 04:52 Tools
Down by the Riverside 00:00 Tools
The Youth 00:00 Tools
Cry Blood Africa 05:07 Tools
Red Gold And Green 03:13 Tools
Farover 04:19 Tools
Children 00:00 Tools
Praise Him 00:00 Tools
Walking In Dub 02:29 Tools
Farther East Of Jack 00:00 Tools
My Roots 00:00 Tools
Should I 00:00 Tools
Spear Burning 04:37 Tools
Civilize Reggae 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time 02:46 Tools
The Ghost 00:00 Tools
2000 Years (Tradition) 00:00 Tools
Great Men's Dub 00:00 Tools
We Are Going 04:14 Tools
Burning Reggae 00:00 Tools
Calling Rastafari 00:00 Tools
Black Wadada 00:00 Tools
Dread River (Jordan River) 03:15 Tools
Dread River 00:00 Tools
John Burns Skank 00:00 Tools
Wailing 00:00 Tools
Thank You 00:00 Tools
Marcus Senior 00:00 Tools
Greetings 00:00 Tools
House of Reggae 00:00 Tools
Brain Food 00:00 Tools
We Are Free 00:00 Tools
Don't Sell Out 00:00 Tools
Cultivation 00:00 Tools
Workshop 00:00 Tools
The Invasion (aka "Black Wa-Da-Da") 00:00 Tools
Come 00:00 Tools
Reggaelation 00:00 Tools
One People 00:00 Tools
This Population 00:00 Tools
Walk 00:00 Tools
Shout It Out 00:00 Tools
Mister Garvey 00:00 Tools
Tumble Down 00:00 Tools
I W.I.N. 00:00 Tools
Them a Come 03:14 Tools
I & I Survive 00:00 Tools
Identity 04:01 Tools
Red, Gold & Green 00:00 Tools
Happy Day 00:00 Tools
Christopher Columbus 00:00 Tools
Woman I Love You 03:56 Tools
Image 04:51 Tools
Don't Mess With Jill 00:00 Tools
Journey 02:45 Tools
Farther East Of Jack (Old Marcus Garvey) 00:00 Tools
Cry Blood Africans 00:00 Tools
The Fittest Of The Fittest 00:00 Tools
Door Peep Shall Not Enter 00:00 Tools
Not Stupid 04:11 Tools
Hello Rastaman 00:00 Tools
The Invasion (A.K.A. Black Wa-Da-Da) 03:18 Tools
Call On You 04:19 Tools
Jah Is My Driver 04:50 Tools
The Lion (live) 03:13 Tools
Old Boy Garvey 03:42 Tools
Nayah Keith 04:03 Tools
Mistress Music 04:25 Tools
Jordan River (Live) 02:59 Tools
Travelling 03:31 Tools
Recall Some Great Men 00:00 Tools
In Africa 03:59 Tools
What A Happy Day 02:49 Tools
The Message 05:27 Tools
Vision 04:45 Tools
As It Is 03:38 Tools
This Race 02:43 Tools
New Civilization 03:23 Tools
Jah Is Real 04:06 Tools
Message 05:28 Tools
Civilised Reggae 07:12 Tools
The World Should Know 04:04 Tools
Hey Dready 03:40 Tools
Trust 03:56 Tools
Jah A Go Raid 05:36 Tools
Let's Move 04:38 Tools
Queen Of The Mountain 03:46 Tools
For You 04:03 Tools
Door Peeper (original single mix) 03:11 Tools
Run For Your Life 06:29 Tools
World Power 04:09 Tools
Jordon River 02:58 Tools
Our Music 04:52 Tools
Social Living - 12" Version 02:49 Tools
You Were Wrong 04:56 Tools
Legal Hustlers 04:50 Tools
The Cruise 00:00 Tools
Children of Today 04:52 Tools
Education 04:13 Tools
Rock 03:32 Tools
Present 03:41 Tools
Step It 08:10 Tools
Jah Boto 03:48 Tools
Elephants 03:53 Tools
Grandfather 03:54 Tools
Stick to the Plan 04:29 Tools
In Those Days 03:35 Tools
O'Jah 03:53 Tools
Brighten My Vision 04:46 Tools
People In High Places 04:21 Tools
I Stand Strong 04:17 Tools
Down in Jamaica 04:15 Tools
Weeping And Wailing 03:58 Tools
Pirate's Dub 04:14 Tools
Call On Jah 04:19 Tools
Old Time Saying 02:20 Tools
You Want Me To 03:10 Tools
When Jah Call 03:57 Tools
Musiya 03:14 Tools
Loved For Who I Am 03:31 Tools
Rocking Time (rare stereo mix) 02:43 Tools
Statue of Liberty 03:35 Tools
Rise Up 03:48 Tools
Help Us 03:45 Tools
Freedom 02:49 Tools
One Africa 04:57 Tools
All Over 03:21 Tools
Grassroot 04:22 Tools
Ha Ha 03:40 Tools
Land Of My Birth 04:06 Tools
Wickedness 04:52 Tools
Call on You (rare stereo mix) 02:43 Tools
Resistance 04:12 Tools
Hallelujah (Extended Mix) 05:33 Tools
Own Security 04:23 Tools
Bad to Worst (rare stereo mix) 02:39 Tools
Peace 05:43 Tools
Not Guilty 04:20 Tools
Freeman 04:39 Tools
700 Strong 04:31 Tools
Associate 03:53 Tools
This Man 03:37 Tools
No Compromise 04:17 Tools
Walla Walla 02:28 Tools
We Feel It 00:00 Tools
Changes 03:44 Tools
Walking (version) 00:00 Tools
Rock and Roll 00:00 Tools
Mek we yadd 04:19 Tools
Holy Man (Extended Mix) 00:00 Tools
Play Jerry 00:00 Tools
Come in Peace 04:45 Tools
Far Over 04:00 Tools
Try Again 05:00 Tools
Africa 05:01 Tools
They Can't 03:22 Tools
Calling Dub 00:00 Tools
Fix Me 03:56 Tools
Friends 04:29 Tools
Mamie 05:04 Tools
African Jamaican 00:00 Tools
Reggae Dub 04:18 Tools
Free (We Are Free) 02:05 Tools
Reggae Physician 00:00 Tools
Holy Dub 04:18 Tools
Free Black People 02:52 Tools
Postman 04:27 Tools
Father East Of Jack (Old Marcus Garvey) 04:24 Tools
Built This City 05:22 Tools
Rasta Business 04:18 Tools
Traveling 00:00 Tools
Appointment With His Majesty 04:19 Tools
Jah say 03:57 Tools
The Invasion/Black Wa-Da-Da 00:00 Tools
We been there 04:12 Tools
Dub He 00:00 Tools
On the Inside 04:50 Tools
My Duty 03:55 Tools
Dub Liberty 00:00 Tools
Hit Dub 04:52 Tools
Mi Gi Dem (I Give Them) 04:02 Tools
Take A Look 04:29 Tools
Jah Nuh Dead 02:09 Tools
Come, Come 04:03 Tools
Jah feeling 04:30 Tools
Old Marcus 03:57 Tools
Social Living - 12" Mix 07:50 Tools
The force 03:47 Tools
Holy Foundation 03:43 Tools
Old School 00:00 Tools
Dub Jah 05:01 Tools
Dub Move 04:41 Tools
Vision Dub 00:00 Tools
Driver 04:50 Tools
Pieces 00:00 Tools
New Experience 00:00 Tools
Love to you 00:00 Tools
Great Men 04:12 Tools
Dub Continent 00:00 Tools
Cry Blood Africa - 2002 Digital Remaster 05:01 Tools
Want Me to 00:00 Tools
Glory Be to Jah 04:56 Tools
Follow Marcus Harvey 00:00 Tools
girls like you 04:00 Tools
Security Dub 00:00 Tools
Ethiopian Live Out 00:00 Tools
Come Come 04:03 Tools
Mi Gi Dem 04:04 Tools
Natural (version) 00:00 Tools
Zion Higher (rare stereo mix) 03:12 Tools
Weeping and Wailing (rare stereo mix) 01:59 Tools
Dub It Clean 04:25 Tools
Door Peeper 03:16 Tools
Loving You 00:00 Tools
My Island 00:00 Tools
This Race (rare stereo mix) 02:41 Tools
African Teacher - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Sons of He (Extended Mix) 00:00 Tools
Commercial Development 00:00 Tools
Hill Street Dub 03:10 Tools
Music 04:55 Tools
Subject In School 00:00 Tools
Together (extended mix) 06:21 Tools
Garvey 04:10 Tools
Zion Higher 03:12 Tools
What a Happy Day (rare stereo mix) 00:00 Tools
Run Come Dub 03:58 Tools
The Wilderness 06:50 Tools
Loving Day 04:08 Tools
Loving Dub 05:08 Tools
Old Timer 02:20 Tools
Civilization 04:05 Tools
Ganja Man 00:00 Tools
Old Marcus Garvey (Live) 03:57 Tools
Road Foggy - 2002 Remastered Version 03:34 Tools
Every Other Nation 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time (Original Single Release With Clement Dodd) 00:00 Tools
Bad to Worse 02:37 Tools
Over All Dub (Civilized Reggae) 03:37 Tools
One Marcus 00:00 Tools
dub creation 00:00 Tools
Little Garvey (extended mix) 07:12 Tools
Cry Africa (Cry Blood Africans) 05:01 Tools
Mi gi dem ( i give them) 00:00 Tools
Ethiopians 03:14 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Slavery Days (Jungle Dub Mix) 06:08 Tools
Free (Version) 00:00 Tools
People Of The World 03:56 Tools
Black Wa Da Da 03:02 Tools
Dub Appointment 00:00 Tools
Cry Blood Africa - 2002 Remastered Version 05:01 Tools
Sons of He 05:54 Tools
Cry Blood 05:01 Tools
Hail Him 00:00 Tools
Negril 00:00 Tools
African Postman (Live) 00:00 Tools
Mandela Marcus (Unreleased Version) 00:00 Tools
This Experience 04:13 Tools
One Marcus Garvey 00:00 Tools
Fly Me To The Moon 04:02 Tools
Jah No Dead (Discomix) 00:00 Tools
Jah Dub 04:15 Tools
African Dub 04:32 Tools
First Time Dub 04:47 Tools
Offensive Dub (Jah a Guh Raid) 00:00 Tools
Majestic Dub (Hail H.I.M.) 00:00 Tools
The Invasion (Aka Black Wa Da Da) 00:00 Tools
My Island Dub 00:00 Tools
Teacher (African Teacher) 00:00 Tools
Institution (Discomix) 00:00 Tools
It's Not a Crime 00:00 Tools
Little Love Song 03:36 Tools
Jomo (Version) 00:00 Tools
Physician Dub 00:00 Tools
Marcus Dub (Follow Marcus Garvey) 00:00 Tools
Step It Remix 04:27 Tools
Dub Smart 00:00 Tools
World Dub (Bad to Worst) 00:00 Tools
In a Time Like Now 04:01 Tools
Foggy (Road Foggy) 00:00 Tools
Irie Niya Keith 00:00 Tools
Sweeter Than Chocolate 00:00 Tools
Down By The River - Down By The Riverside 02:55 Tools
Peaceful Dub 04:12 Tools
Columbus - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Dub African 04:32 Tools
Prophet 06:47 Tools
Clean It Up 04:47 Tools
Black Wa-Da-Da (The Invasion Dub) 00:00 Tools
No Worry You'self 03:48 Tools
I'm Not The Worst 03:11 Tools
Joe Frazier 00:00 Tools
Seville Land 02:56 Tools
Social Living (Pit Of Snakes) 00:00 Tools
Door Deep 00:00 Tools
Down by the River (AKA Down by the Riverside) 00:00 Tools
Music Dub 04:54 Tools
Stand 00:00 Tools
Burning Dub 04:18 Tools
Swellheaded 00:00 Tools
Burning Spear - Jah See and Know 03:32 Tools
Remember 00:00 Tools
Greetings (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Chanting Home 04:13 Tools
Dub Man 00:00 Tools
Mek We Dweet In Dub 04:29 Tools
dub old timer 00:00 Tools
Columbus (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Tell The Children 04:40 Tools
Smart Dub 04:42 Tools
Pit Of Snakes 03:54 Tools
Naya Keet 00:00 Tools
I And I Survive - Sub Dub Remix 06:26 Tools
Free 00:00 Tools
Experience 00:00 Tools
Girl Like You 00:00 Tools
Jah Is My Driver (Dub) 00:00 Tools
Social Living (Extended Mix) 07:55 Tools
Distant Drum 04:08 Tools
African Teacher - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
One Or Two 00:00 Tools
Distance Far Over 00:00 Tools
Spear Burning (live) 03:38 Tools
Step It (Remix) 00:00 Tools
O Rastaman-Extended Mix 00:00 Tools
Subjective Dub 00:00 Tools
Youth 00:00 Tools
Business Dub 04:54 Tools
Pirate's Dub (Columbus) 00:00 Tools
Friendly Dub 00:00 Tools
World Dub 00:00 Tools
Follow Marcus Garvey - 2002 Remastered Version 04:26 Tools
Columbus - 2002 Remastered Version 03:37 Tools
One Way 00:00 Tools
I And I Survive (Aka Slavery Days Dub) 00:00 Tools
Trust Dub 00:00 Tools
Music Business 04:54 Tools
Pieces Of Dub 00:00 Tools
Leader 00:00 Tools
Jomo 00:00 Tools
Mek We Dweet (live) 04:19 Tools
Say You Are In Love 00:00 Tools
Hail H.I.M (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Zion I Awake (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Marcus Say (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Road Foggy - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Tell Me Tell Me 03:22 Tools
Come (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
S.O.U.L. 00:00 Tools
Love Garvey 00:00 Tools
Jah Rasta 00:00 Tools
Red Green And Gold 00:00 Tools
African Teacher (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Burning Spear - Walking In Dub 02:28 Tools
Telegram in Dub (African Postman) 00:00 Tools
Marcus Children (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Black Wa-Da-Da-Da (Invasion) 00:00 Tools
The Future (Clean It Up) 00:00 Tools
Marcus Senior (Original Mix) 05:09 Tools
The Force (Unreleased Version) 00:00 Tools
Mister Garvey (Original Mix) 04:51 Tools
Jah See And Know - 2002 Remastered Version 03:32 Tools
On That Day 00:00 Tools
We Pray (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Civilised Reggae - 12" Version 00:00 Tools
Social Living (12" Version) 00:00 Tools
Who's The Winner 03:52 Tools
Fittest Of The Fittest (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Institution (Disco Mix) 00:00 Tools
Cry Blood Africa (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
We Suffer (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Clean 00:00 Tools
Telegram Dub (African Postman) 00:00 Tools
first continent 00:00 Tools
Kiss the Girl 04:02 Tools
Further East of Jack (Old Marcus Garvey) 00:00 Tools
Dub Don't Cry 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah 06:30 Tools
Jah Is My Driver - Slavery Days 00:00 Tools
African Postman - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
WE GO DEH 00:00 Tools
Down By The River 02:55 Tools
New Civilisation 00:00 Tools
Jordan River (Jamaica) 00:00 Tools
The Invasion (aka Black Wa-Da-Da) 00:00 Tools
jah 03:53 Tools
Black wa da da (Invasion) 03:02 Tools
Road Foggy (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Great Mens Dub 00:00 Tools
Jah A Guh Raid - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Mr. Rodney 00:00 Tools
Ghost (Marcus Garvey) 00:00 Tools
01 - marcus garvey 00:00 Tools
Investigation Dub 00:00 Tools
Bad To Worst (Rare Stereo Mix. Previously Unreleased On CD) 00:00 Tools
I & I Survive (Sub Dub Remix) 06:27 Tools
Jah No Dead (Disco Mix) 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time (Live) 00:00 Tools
Walk (extended mix) 00:00 Tools
This Population (Previously Unreleased On CD) 03:04 Tools
Teacher Dub 00:00 Tools
Who's The Winner? 00:00 Tools
Follow Marcus Garvey - 2002 Digital Remaster 04:26 Tools
Farther East Of Jack (Old Marcus Garvery) 00:00 Tools
Postman Dub 00:00 Tools
Chant Down Babylon 00:00 Tools
Jah See And Know - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Zion Higher (Rare Stereo Mix. Previously Unreleased On CD) 00:00 Tools
Ghost 00:00 Tools
02 - Slavery Days 00:00 Tools
Old School Dub 00:00 Tools
Associates 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time (Original Single Release Featuring Clement Dodd) 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah(extended Mix) 00:00 Tools
New Civilization (Previously Unreleased On CD) 00:00 Tools
Columbus Dub 00:00 Tools
This Race (Rare Stereo Mix. Previously Unreleased On CD) 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time (Rare Stereo Mix. Previously Unreleased On CD) 02:44 Tools
Foggy Dub 00:00 Tools
Together 00:00 Tools
African Postman - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Call On You (Rare Stereo Mix. Previously Unreleased On CD) 02:44 Tools
Nyah Kieth 00:00 Tools
Marcus_Garvey 03:24 Tools
Sun 00:00 Tools
Dub Him 00:00 Tools
What A Happy Day (Rare Stereo Mix. Previously Unreleased on CD) 00:00 Tools
Image (Of Marcus Mosiah Garvey) 00:00 Tools
Dub Raid Dem 00:00 Tools
Weeping and Wailing (Rare Stereo Mix. Previously Unreleased On CD) 00:00 Tools
Civilised Reggae (Extended Mix) 07:10 Tools
Mek Me Dweet 00:00 Tools
I Am In 00:00 Tools
Changes Dub 00:00 Tools
Little Garvey 00:00 Tools
04 - Live Good 00:00 Tools
Dub Is Good 00:00 Tools
Columbus (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
So Clean 00:00 Tools
Jah A Guh Raid - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Dub Follow 00:00 Tools
Play Jerry (Garcia, Grateful Dead) 00:00 Tools
Hail H.I.M (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
(Recall Some) Great Men 00:00 Tools
I Gave You My Word 04:15 Tools
Civilized Dub 00:00 Tools
Old Marcus Garvey - Live 00:00 Tools
05 - Give Me 00:00 Tools
Jah No Dead (Original Film Mix) 00:00 Tools
Kiss the Girl [From The Little Mermaid] 04:03 Tools
Dub Ha Ha 00:00 Tools
O Rastaman 00:00 Tools
Fittest Of The Fittest (2002 Digital Remaster) 03:48 Tools
Dub Been There 00:00 Tools
Mek Me Dweet in Dub 00:00 Tools
I & I survive (slavery Days) 00:00 Tools
No More Way 00:00 Tools
Untitled 04:56 Tools
Mandela Marcus 00:00 Tools
Dub Not Guilty 04:23 Tools
10 - Resting Place 03:10 Tools
Civilised Reggae (12" Version) 00:00 Tools
09 - Red, Gold And Green 00:00 Tools
Jah is my driver (version) 00:00 Tools
I And I Survive (Sub Dub Remix) 00:00 Tools
Investigation 00:00 Tools
Lion - Live 00:00 Tools
Jah See And Know (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Follow Marcus Garvey (2002 Remastered Version) 04:26 Tools
Do The Regaae (12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
Invasion [Aka Black Wa-da-da] 00:00 Tools
The Invasion / Black Wa-Da-Da (Extended Mix) 00:00 Tools
I WIN 00:00 Tools
Repartition 00:00 Tools
Holy Man 05:46 Tools
Unreleased Original Reservation * 00:00 Tools
Never (Paul Oakenfold Remix) 00:00 Tools
Not Guilty Dub 04:23 Tools
Man In The Hills (Live) 04:00 Tools
Father East of Jack 00:00 Tools
Dub Don't Change 00:00 Tools
Distance 04:18 Tools
Freeman Dub 00:00 Tools
Farover - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ha Ha Dub 00:00 Tools
Pit of Snakes (Social Living) 00:00 Tools
Social Living [Extended Mix] 00:00 Tools
Dub We Feel It 00:00 Tools
Black Wa-Da-Da-Da 00:00 Tools
The Youth (live) 00:00 Tools
Thanks & Praises - Philip Fullwood 00:00 Tools
Jordan River - Live 00:00 Tools
Red, Gold, and Green 00:00 Tools
I Gave You My Word - Philip Fullwood 04:14 Tools
Love Everyone [Version] - Philip Fullwood 00:00 Tools
The Future(Clean It Up) 00:00 Tools
Unreleased Original Reservation (Dub Mix)* 00:00 Tools
Thanks & Praises 00:00 Tools
10 Groovy 00:00 Tools
dub peace 00:00 Tools
09-slavery days 03:23 Tools
The Lion 00:00 Tools
Slavery Days (live) 06:04 Tools
Marcus Garvey-Live In Australia 00:00 Tools
Jah No Dead [Studio Recording] 00:00 Tools
Word [Version] - Philip Fullwood 00:00 Tools
Burning Spear 00:00 Tools
Dub Dready 00:00 Tools
Red,green and gold 00:00 Tools
My Roots-Jamaica Version 00:00 Tools
Do The Reggae (12" mix) 00:00 Tools
THROW DOWN YOUR ARMS (JAMAICA VERSION) 00:00 Tools
Driver-Live In Australia 00:00 Tools
Loving Dub II 00:00 Tools
Cry Blood Africa (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Jah Rasta- Unreleased 00:00 Tools
Thanks and Praises 00:00 Tools
Jah No Dead (film version) 00:00 Tools
Great man 04:15 Tools
Lion [Live] 00:00 Tools
Farover (Version) 00:00 Tools
Dub Is What I Am 00:00 Tools
Red, Gold, & Green 00:00 Tools
African Teacher (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Cry Blood-Jamaica Version 00:00 Tools
08-columbus 00:00 Tools
Part Two - Marcus Garvey 00:00 Tools
Farover Distance (Version) 00:00 Tools
Dub Rock And Roll 00:00 Tools
Love Every one (version) 00:00 Tools
I Gave You My World 00:00 Tools
Loving Day-Part Two 00:00 Tools
My Roots- Jamaica Version 00:00 Tools
Dub Rise Up 00:00 Tools
Farover - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Rabbit In The Moon 08:51 Tools
Dub Is Free 00:00 Tools
African Postman (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Red, Green & Gold 00:00 Tools
Love Everyone (Version) 03:09 Tools
Music Business- Unreleased 00:00 Tools
Burning Spear & Israel Vibration - Dread River 00:00 Tools
Word (Version) 00:00 Tools
Further East Of Jack (Old Marcus Garvey) (Live) 00:00 Tools
Old Boy Garvey (2002 Remastered Version) 03:42 Tools
Dub Can 00:00 Tools
Part Two- Marcus Garvey- Record In Australia 00:00 Tools
Days of Slavery 00:00 Tools
01 Man In The Hills 00:00 Tools
Hey Dready Dub 00:00 Tools
Marcus Children 00:00 Tools
Walk (Jamaica) 00:00 Tools
Rise Up Dub 00:00 Tools
Farther East of Jack (Old Marc 00:00 Tools
Happy Day-Part Two 00:00 Tools
Black Soul (Live) 00:00 Tools
Together(Ext Mix) 00:00 Tools
Man In The Hills-Live In Australia 00:00 Tools
World (version) 00:00 Tools
Throw Down Your Arms (Live) 00:00 Tools
Part Two- Loving Day- Unreleased 00:00 Tools
05 LION 00:00 Tools
Rock And Roll Dub 00:00 Tools
Road Foggy (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
RastaMan (Ext Mix) 00:00 Tools
Social Living [#] 00:00 Tools
Dready Dub 00:00 Tools
Down by the River (Down by the Riverside) 00:00 Tools
Loved For Who I Am Dub 03:31 Tools
Mi Gi Dem( I Give Them) 00:00 Tools
Jah See And Know (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Institution- Jamaica Version 04:21 Tools
Creation Rebel-Part Two 00:00 Tools
Greetings - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Cry Blood- Jamaica Version 00:00 Tools
08 Mother 00:00 Tools
Future [Clean It Up] 00:00 Tools
Little Garvey (EXT.Mix) 00:00 Tools
Part Two- Creation Rebel 00:00 Tools
We Feel It Dub 00:00 Tools
Door Peep-Live In New Mexico 00:00 Tools
On That Way 00:00 Tools
Appontment With His Majesty 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time (Original) 00:00 Tools
Marcus Dub 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time (rare ver w.DJ) 00:00 Tools
dub not stupid 00:00 Tools
01 - Ethiopians Live It Out 00:00 Tools
O'Rastaman 00:00 Tools
Marcus Say Jah No Dead (original mix) 03:53 Tools
Marcus Garvey (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
O Rastaman (Extended Mix) 00:00 Tools
The Future [clean It Up] 00:00 Tools
Bad To Worst - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Black Wa-Da-Da- (Invasion) 00:00 Tools
burning spear - i stand strong 00:00 Tools
Jah Is My Driver - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Fittest Of The Fittest - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Not Guility 00:00 Tools
Part Two- Driver- Record In Australia 00:00 Tools
Civilized Raggae 00:00 Tools
Marcus Say 00:00 Tools
I And I Survive (Slavery Days) (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Am In- Unreleased 00:00 Tools
Never 04:07 Tools
Happy Day (Live) 10:44 Tools
The Invasion / Black Wa-Da-Da - Extended Mix 00:00 Tools
Teacher 00:00 Tools
Reggae Roots 00:00 Tools
Civilized Reggae - 12" Version 00:00 Tools
Loved Dub 00:00 Tools
Part Two- Man In The Hills- Record In Australia 00:00 Tools
Telegram in Dub 00:00 Tools
O' Rastaman [Extended Mix] 00:00 Tools
African Postman (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
They Can't Dub 00:00 Tools
dub nation 00:00 Tools
People Get Ready (album version) 00:00 Tools
dub rastaman 00:00 Tools
Repartition- Jamaica Version 00:00 Tools
Part Two- Happy Day 07:30 Tools
Faroyer 00:00 Tools
The Invasion / Black Wa-Da-Da 00:00 Tools
Throw Down Your Arms- Jamaica Version 00:00 Tools
Rock Dub 00:00 Tools
O' Rastaman (extended mix) 00:00 Tools
Majestic Dub 00:00 Tools
dub this man 00:00 Tools
Ha Dub 03:50 Tools
Bad To Worst - 2002 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
dub africa 00:00 Tools
cannabis 00:00 Tools
Distance - Farover dub 00:00 Tools
Rocking Time (Original Single Release) 02:46 Tools
O'Rastaman' Dub Mix 00:00 Tools
dub the world 00:00 Tools
dub legal 00:00 Tools
The Ghost (Marcus Garvey) (Live) 00:00 Tools
Institution Dub 03:48 Tools
Dub School Dub 00:00 Tools
So Clean- Unreleased 00:00 Tools
Social Living - DO NOT USE 00:00 Tools
Slavery Days (Jungle Club Mix) 00:00 Tools
Cry Africa 00:00 Tools
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey 00:00 Tools
Jah Is My Driver - 2002 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Jah No Dead - From "Rockers" Soundtrack 02:09 Tools
Jah Nuh Dead (Live) 00:00 Tools
dub burning 00:00 Tools
dub subject in school 00:00 Tools
05 - Lion 00:00 Tools
S.O.U.L 00:00 Tools
Feel Dub 00:00 Tools
Can't Dub 00:00 Tools
Part Two- Door Peep- Record In Albuquerque, New Mexico 00:00 Tools
Social Living (long version) 00:00 Tools
Jah Is Our Driver (Version) 00:00 Tools
We Suffer 00:00 Tools
06 - Down By The Riverside 00:00 Tools
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Dub Is No Crime 00:00 Tools
Black So I 03:35 Tools
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Resting_Place 03:10 Tools
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Queen Of The Mountains 00:00 Tools
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Jah No Dead [Original Film Mix] 00:00 Tools
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Never Run Away 00:00 Tools
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No Title 00:00 Tools
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Never (Paul Oakenfold Club Mix) 00:00 Tools
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Education - 2002 Remastered Version 04:13 Tools
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Fire Man (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Dread River [Jordan River] 00:00 Tools
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Burning Spears - Marcus Garvey 03:24 Tools
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Don't Kill The Lion 00:00 Tools
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Farover (2002 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
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01 Marcus Garvey 00:00 Tools
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Black Soul - Live 00:00 Tools
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Rocking Time (original single release) (feat. Clement Dodd) 00:00 Tools
Driver (Live in Australia) 00:00 Tools
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I Give Them 00:00 Tools
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Natural 00:00 Tools
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Bad To Worst (2002 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Old Marcus Carvey 00:00 Tools
MY ROOTS (JAMAICA VERSION) 00:00 Tools
Marcus Garvey [1974] 00:00 Tools
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LOVING DAY (PART TWO) 00:00 Tools
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Dub Him Dub Him 00:00 Tools
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Civilised Reggae [Extended Mix] 00:00 Tools
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Social Living (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Driver (Live) 00:00 Tools
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Winston Rodney (born March 1, 1945), also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Like many famous Jamaican reggae artists, Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages. Rodney was born in Saint Ann's Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica, as were Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey; who both had a great influence on Rodney's life. Garvey in his philosophy, which Burning Spear greatly took to, and Marley in directly helping Burning Spear get started in the music industry. Burning Spear was originally Rodney's group, named after Jomo Kenyatta, the first Prime Minister and President of an independent Kenya. As fame took hold the name of the group gradually became synonymous with Rodney. Burning Spear is one of the strongest proponents of Marcus Garvey's self-determination and self-reliance for all African descendants, thus leading to several album releases in commemoration of the African activist. In 2002, Burning Spear and his wife, Sonia Rodney who has produced a number of his albums, founded Burning Spear Records. Burning Spear advocates messages of honesty, peace, and love, which tie in with his religious and political messages of Rasta and black unity. About Burning Spear Burning Music "I don't know how other people see music," reggae legend Burning Spear reflects. "Some people might see it based upon money, some people might see music based upon opportunity and access. But I see music as life. I see music as inspiration." For more than 35 years, Burning Spear's music-thus, his life-has inspired people on numerous continents. Since the beginning, his songs have implored listeners to fight oppression in all its forms, to work at improving their own condition and to consider the social impact of their actions. OUR MUSIC builds upon the Jamaican native's legacy of musical activism. With its inimitable dancing groove, the album percolates and bubbles rhythmically in its call for unity between races, between nations, between individuals and even between business associates. OUR MUSIC is the second album released on his Burning Spear label, following 2003's Grammy-nominated FREEMAN. In the midst of its expected messages about love, oppression and African history is the title track, a public confirmation that his brand of positivity is tempered with a strong sense of self. "Our Music" is Burning Spear's reclamation of his own artistry-a justification for establishing his record company and a challenge to all artists to commandeer their own future. "A lot of artists just have no time to really look within the business section of the music business," Burning Spear reasons. "There's no one to really sit them down and give them some of that business understanding before they get into what they get into. So then people walk all over these artists and do things where it's not appropriate and it's not right. It's not in the artist's love." With his art and his business now firmly in his own control, Burning Spear's OUR MUSIC stands among the most joyful albums of his career. Bolstered by its throbbing basslines, bright horn parts and slinky female background singers, the songs embrace persistence ("Try Again"), self-analysis ("Friends"), love ("Fix Me") and community ("Together") through deceptively simple lyrics that point to deeper issues. It is, in effect, smart music you can dance to. "It's like art," he says. "You're gonna paint this thing, and people are gonna look at this art and say that it looks like a tree, looks like a car, some people it looks like a flower. People are gonna say different things according to what they see. It's very different, what it looks like to them." No matter who looks at Burning Spear's career, they have to be impressed. Of his more than 25 albums, nine have earned Grammy nominations, with one of them - 1999's CALLING RASTAFRI - receiving the Academy's Best Reggae Album honor. And he remains one of the few reggae pioneers still working and influencing the people today. Born Winston Rodney in St. Ann, Jamaica, he was an early fan of Bob Marley. As the legend goes, Rodney bumped into Marley while walking through a field, and the two began talking about music. Marley encouraged him to visit Jamaica's Studio One, where Rodney and a fellow musician recorded "Door Peep." By the time of its release, Rodney had branded the duo Burning Spear, taking the nickname of Jomo Kenyatta, who was jailed by a colonial British government in Africa but rose to become the first president of Kenya. "I believe in people who are gonna stand up for what they believe in," Burning Spear notes, "not only for themselves, but for themselves and their people, and that was what Jomo was doing." Even more central to Burning Spears' mission - and it truly is a mission - was the doctrine of Marcus Garvey, a 20th century figure who pushed for a stronger black race through self-reliance. The Jamaican-born Garvey supported freedom and economic strength for all people, but made the African-originated population his focus and published his views in a New York-based newspaper, Negro World. Garvey was jailed in the 1920s and eventually exiled to Jamaica, though he never lashed out at the system that brought him down. His message survived, influencing the likes of Kenyatta, Martin Luther King Jr., Marley and Burning Spear, which titled some of its seminal albums MARCUS GARVEY and MARCUS' CHILDREN. "Those men wasn't preachin' any violence," Burning Spear says. "They were preachin' about Oneness and the struggles of black people about where they can live and having their voices heard. I don't see anything wrong with his plan and his direction. I think he opened a lot of eyes and opened a lot of mouths so those people could really talk and their voices could be heard. I think the time is right now to clear his name up and set his record free." Burning Spear's mission remains rather unchanged today, though the act and the music have undergone some alterations. The duo grew into a trio, but has long since morphed into Burning Spear, a solo artist. And while his music has always been a vehicle for social change, his songs are now increasingly melodic, developed with catchy hooks that use short phrases and point more subtly to internal truths for those willing to go through self-exploration. The music survives in a much different musical era. The reggae genre, once a distinct idiom unto itself, has been co-opted by artists throughout the years and melded with other pop forms. Artists such as Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, The Police, Stevie Wonder and UB40 combined it with pop and rock during the '70s and '80s, while Shaggy and Sean Paul have blended it with hip-hop textures in more recent years. Even country man Willie Nelson put together a hybrid album involving Toots Hibbert, of The Maytals. Those efforts have called attention to the genre, and specifically to those who helped bring reggae to the world in the '70s, including Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Hibbert and Marley. In his time, Marley gave Burning Spear his personal seal of approval, and the Spear continues to maintain a devotion to reggae's roots while continuing his service to Jah. "I think people have to remember the originals," Burning Spear suggests. "So to be honest, I don't really feel no way about it when people put reggae in a different form. Regardless who's gonna do what with the music, I don't think they interfere with Burning Spear." OUR MUSIC relies heavily on the roots of the reggae movement. "What I tried to do with this album, musically and lyrically, is to go back to the '70s, when we were singin' about the history and the culture and the lifestyle of these people," Burning Spear observes. "A lot of Burning Spear songs of that earlier times, people would see as political. To me, it's just a natural thing. As an artist, I just expressed that." Burning Spear continues his mission of expressing his heart, of entertaining and educating the masses. He cleverly accomplishes that by winning over his listeners' bodies before he impacts their minds. He witnesses that process each time he takes the stage. "You see the head start to nod, you start to see one movement from one of these legs down here and another one, 'til the whole body just gets involved in the whole thing," he laughs. "You have to think about that when you're creatin' the music-you're not just creatin' the music for people to sit back and listen, 'Oh, that's all good and that's bad.' You need people to shake a leg." As they listen at home and shake legs to OUR MUSIC, listeners will also be swept up with the headiness of Burning Spear's message. The political statements are still there, most obviously in the continued references to Marcus Garvey ("One Marcus" and "Little Garvey"). But OUR MUSIC also contains deeper ideas that penetrate quietly, subtly into the mind before they reach clarity. The bouncy "Friends" asks rather simplistically, "Are you my friend, my neighbor or my enemy?/Who are you? Who are you?" On further reflection, it's obvious that the question is a complex one about societal roles and provocative self-evaluation. "Together" recalls the image of African slaves, shackled together at the ankles, while suggesting that contemporary blacks can still link together figuratively at the elbow in the continued quest for equality. And "Fix Me" embraces the power and essence of love, which Burning Spear sees as the ultimate goal of humanity. "Love," he says, "is a harmony thing, it's a communication. Love is a link." Burning Spear's link is a pure one in 2006. Unfettered by someone else's record company, still linked to the roots of reggae and to the ideals of its forefathers, OUR MUSIC points to a better world for those who are oppressed, and for those who simply believe a better world is possible. "Music," Burning Spear maintains, "is a very important thing. We have to remember that no force is stronger than the music." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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