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Burning Spear: Resistance (Heartbeat)

Don Snowden, Boston Phoenix, 28 June 1985

A FULL DECADE after the landmark Marcus Garvey (Island) album, the voice and vision of Burning Spear (the nom de stage of Jamaican singer/songwriter Winston Rodney) remains the most distinctive in all reggae.

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