Blurb:

No one has more tirelessly brought the message of roots reggae to the world than
Burning Spear. No one has even come close. Along with Bob Marley & The Wailers
and The Abyssinians, he helped create the form. And he would stay strictly
with the music and message of roots reggae right through to the present day.
He is still recording and performing live around the world, more than forty years
later. In fact, no Jamaican recording artist has had a longer duration of recording
in just one style. (The Jolly Boys’ run of rural mento records that started in 1973 is
second. But remember, in this case there was a complete turnover of band membership.)
Burning Spear’s first record, ‘Door Peeper’, in 1969, was pure roots right
from the get-go, sounding little like any other reggae of that year. Even his name
was a nod towards the Rasta belief in black self-determination. Jomo Kenyatta
was a freedom fighter who went on to become the first post-colonial ruler of
Kenya. The English translation of his first name is “burning spear”.