Tenement Yard

by Jacob Miller

Tenement Yard cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Top Ranking
  • Country: Jamaica
  • Length: 34:07
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Jacob Miller

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Backed by the immense grooves of the Inner Circle band, the revered Jamaican vocalist delivers a monumental roots reggae classic. The album pairs his distinctive, soulful vibrato with deeply conscious, socially aware lyricism addressing poverty and ghetto life in Kingston.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs

Tracklist

  1. Dreada Dread (2:55)
  2. Money (2:28)
  3. Tenament Yard (2:35)
  4. Suzie Wong (2:31)
  5. Every Day With You Girl (2:15)
  6. Dock Of The Bay (3:05)
  7. Tired Fe Lick Weed In A Bush (2:59)
  8. Truth Has Come Again (2:50)
  9. All Night Till Daylight (3:15)
  10. Forward Jah Jah Children (3:13)
  11. Why Can't We Be Friends (3:30)
  12. Roman Soldiers Of Babylon (2:31)

Credits

  • Jacob Miller - primary artist
  • Otis Redding - written-by [uncredited]
  • Steve Cropper - written-by [uncredited]
  • Jerry Goldstein - written-by [uncredited]
  • War - written-by [uncredited]

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