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2LP Vinyl – 5360235

A stone classic from Burning Spear – and one of those key 70s sets that helped the roots underground of Jamaica really find a wider audience around the globe – yet all without sounding too commercial at all! This isn't crossover pop reggae – but instead some well-crafted, message-oriented music that makes the best use of the Island Records placement of the set to deliver a righteous vibe with top-shelf presentation! Winston Rodney shines as a singer, writer, and co-producer – on titles that include "Marcus Children Suffer", "Social Living", "Nayah Keith", "Institution", "Marcus Senior", "Civilized Reggae", "Mister Garvey", "Come", and "Marcus Say Jah No Dead". 2LP set also features the Living Dub album – a fantastic dub reworking of the album Social Living – issued a year after the first – which is maybe the time it took to come up with all the cool creative takes on the tunes! The set got much less circulation at the time than the vocal one – and it really shows Winston Rodney opening up a bag of tricks in the studio – really transforming the core tunes on the album with all sorts of cool twists and turns! Titles include "Children Of Today", "Present", "Associate", "Jah Boto", "In Those Days", "Irie Niya Keith", "Help Us", "Musiya", and "All Over"