Dread Beat an' Blood
by Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 1978
- Label: Front Line
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 39:45
- Community rating: 4.25/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Dread Beat an' Blood' is the debut album by Jamaican born, London based poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, credited on release to Poet and the Roots and recorded at Gooseberry Studios in London with Dennis Bovell engineering and mixing. Most of its eight tracks set poems first published in Johnson's poetry collection of the same name, and the closing track, 'All Wi Doin' Is Defendin'', anticipated the Brixton riot in detail.
Genres
Descriptors: political, protest, spoken-word, social-commentary, rhythmic
Tracklist
- Dread Beat An' Blood (2:59)
- Five Nights Of Bleeding (4:29)
- Doun De Road (2:27)
- Song Of Blood (6:28)
- It Dread Inna Inglan (4:04)
- Come Wi Goh Dung Deh (3:46)
- Man Free (6:01)
- Command Counsel Dub (3:10)
- Defense Dub (3:13)
- All Wi Doin Is Defendin (3:02)
Credits
- Una Howe - artwork [sleeve drawing]
- Floyd Lawson - bass, rhythm guitar
- Jah Bunny - drums, percussion
- Winston Curniffe - drums, percussion
- John Varnom - guitar, other [special thanks]
- Dennis Bovell - keyboards, guitar
- Susan Marsh - design
- Vivien Goldman - liner notes [sounds]