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Submit Your ReviewThe title pretty much says it all. This is a stunning debut and an indication of the great things that were to come. Johnson's debut is longer on spoken-word pieces than it is on poetry and music, but Dennis Bovell's influence can be felt in these eight tracks. Songs such as "It Dread Inna Inglan," which describes the death of George Lindo at the hands of racists, or "Five Nights of Bleeding," which recounts tales of British police's capricious use of violence against London's West Indian population, are moving and confrontational mini-masterpieces of anger and a man searching for justice in a country that seems all to willing too deny it to him and other Afro-Brits. A powerful and compelling record. ~ John Dougan, All Music Guide
Dread Beat an' Blood
01/01/1978
All Music Guide Review
Dread Beat an' Blood Track Listing
Credits of Dread Beat an' Blood
- John Varnom
- Guitar
- Lila Weathers
- Vocals, ?
- Dennis Blackbeard
- Engineer, Remixing
- Nancy Given
- Art Direction
- Susan Marsh
- Design
- Vivian Weathers
- Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Producer, Vocals
- Dennis "Blackbeard" Bovell
- Guitar, Keyboards
- Jah Bunny
- Percussion, Drums
- Desmond Craig
- Keyboards
- Winston Curniffe
- Percussion, Drums
- Everald Forrest
- Percussion
- Floyd Lawson
- Bass, Guitar (Rhythm)
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Percussion, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Main Performer
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