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Making History (Linton Kwesi Johnson album)

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Released
  
October 1983 (UK)

Artist
  
Linton Kwesi Johnson

Label
  
Island Records

Length
  
33:31

Release date
  
1984

Genre
  
Dub

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Recorded
  
Studio 80, 6-8 Emerson Street, London

Making History (1983)
  
LKJ Live in Concert with the Dub Band (1985)

Producers
  
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dennis Bovell

Linton Kwesi Johnson albums
  
Forces of Victory, LKJ in Dub, Dread Beat an' Blood, Bass Culture, Reggae Greats

Linton kwesi johnson making history


Making History is an album by dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1983 on the Island Records label. It was produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell (credited as Blackbeard).

Contents

Lintown kwesi johnson di eagle an di bear


Track listing

All tracks written by Linton Kwesi Johnson

  1. "Di Eagle an' di Bear" – 4:14
  2. "Wat About di Working Claas?" – 5:12
  3. "Di Great Insohreckshan" – 4:02
  4. "Making History" – 4:19
  5. "Reggae fi Radni" – 4:24
  6. "Reggae fi Dada" – 4:50
  7. "New Craas Massahkah" – 6:30

Personnel

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson - voice
  • The Dub Band

  • Dennis Bovell - bass, mixing
  • Richie Stevens - drums
  • John Kpiaye - guitar
  • Paget King - keyboards
  • Nick Straker - synthesizer
  • Patrick Tenyue - trumpet
  • Henry "Buttons" Tenyue - trombone
  • Geoffrey Scantlebury - percussion
  • Tony Utah - other percussion
  • Everald Forrest - other percussion
  • Dennis Bovell, Godwin Logie, Martin Rex, Stephen Street - engineers
  • Bruno Tilley - art work
  • Peter Ashworth - photography
  • Songs

    1Di Eagle An' Di Bear4:18
    2Wat About Di Workin' Claas?5:13
    3Di Great Insohreckshan4:03

    References

    Making History (Linton Kwesi Johnson album) Wikipedia