Dennis Brown: Words Of Wisdom (Laser)
Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1979
THE WHITE listener who came to reggae through Bob Marley may have been puzzled by the emergence of Dennis Brown, who at first seems to be in the ''puppet" tradition of the years before the music's artists gained the right to self-determination.
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