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Music : Dry & Heavy
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Dry & Heavy by: Burning Spear |
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Binding: Audio Cassette EAN: 0016253943148 Label: Mango Manufacturer: Mango Publisher: Mango Release Date: February 04, 1992 Studio: Mango Sales Rank: 950581 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Dry & Heavy was originally released in 1977, a watershed time for reggae music. From a year chock-full of classics, Winston "Burning Spear" Rodney's offering ranks among the top. The majority of the songs featured here are remakes from Spear's Studio One days, but the originals have been improved upon with a fuller sound, courtesy of a superior gathering of artists, including Wailers band members Earl "Wire" Lindo, Carlton Barret, and Earl "Chinna" Smith. The lineup also features Dirty Harry Hall, Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, and several other musician-actors featured in the roots reality film Rockers, in which Burning Spear had a small yet pivotal role. Don Taylor, who at the time managed both Spear and Bob Marley, is listed as executive producer. The album exists as a perfect entity. First thing you hear after the drums drop in is that distinctive voice--pure and unadorned, calling to you, seemingly, from atop a cliff, stretching out to the ocean. --Rebecca Levine Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Tremendous AlbumThis album is one of Spear's best, along with Marcus Garvey. The songs Any River, The Sun and I W.I.N. are simply awesome. His voice is clear and the instrumentation is marvelous. One of the best reggae albums ever made. Rating: - More Burning ReggaeThis excepcional cd, which inlcudes newly made songs and re-made songs from his two first vinyls, is still in the line begined in 1973 with The Studio One Presents The Burning Spear. Real roots reggae music, a must have for all fans of mr. rodney and reggae fans in general. Rating: - another gemReleased in 1977, "Dry & Heavy" was a very satisfying album amidst chaos within the Spear camp. A quick look at the credits will show that original members Rupert Wellington and Delroy Hines are nowhere to be found on them. Winston Rodney (hereafter known as "Burning Spear") dropped the 2 for reasons I am not sure of. Nevertheless, Burning Spear plowed ahead. "Dry and Heavy" are basically reworkings of many of his very early Studio One recordings from the early 70's and renamed. The results clearly show that Winston Rodney was/is/and continues to be/ the driving force that is Burning Spear. This recording is the first glimpse at the post-trio Spear, and ,augmented by many of the great studio musicians ... Read More: |
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