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Poet and the Roots

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Genres
  
Labels
  
Active until
  
1978

Years active
  
1977–1978

Associated acts
  
Genre
  
Dub

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Origin
  
London, United Kingdom (1977)

Members
  
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dennis Bovell, Vivian Weathers, Jah Bunny

Similar
  
Delroy Washington, Matumbi, Dr Alimantado, Prince Far I, Prince Hammer

Poet and the Roots are a reggae band formed to record dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson's poems with dub backing tracks.

Contents

Johnson released his later material under his own name, although some of the musicians from this group appeared on his subsequent albums.

Album

Dread Beat an' Blood, Virgin Records, 1978

Single

"All Wi Doin' Is Defendin'", Virgin Records, 1977

Songs

Song Of BloodDread Beat an' Blood · 1978
Dreas Inna InglanDread Beat an' Blood · 1978
Five Nights Of BleedinDread Beat an' Blood · 1978

References

Poet and the Roots Wikipedia


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