World of Reggae Music Collection: Roots and Culture
Slavery Days
In the final edition of the Roots and Culture volume of the World of Reggae Music Collection the selector presents Slavery Days. Over 400 years of slavery ravaged the Atlantic world. And in fact, the legacy of slavery has been nearly as destructive. The African Holocaust, as some in the reggae profession have termed the catastrophic event, unleashed horrific consequences for the people of Africa and for those enslaved Africans transplanted to the islands of the Caribbean.
Jamaican reggae artists played many of their Roots and Culture songs about the history and legacy of slavery. The iconic Burning Spear recorded one of the most enduring songs in this vein called “Slavery Days
.” The Wailers recorded “Slave Driver” on the classic reggae album Catch A Fire
. Both the Bob Marley
and The Wailers
full-band version of “Redemption Song (Band Version)
” and the Bob Marley’s acoustic version of “Redemption Song (Album Version)
” appears on this edition. Some of these songs of slavery are in fact songs of freedom.
The bands Steel Pulse, Culture
, Third World
, and the Wailing Souls
; the reggae stars Gregory Isaacs
, Lee Scratch Perry, Junior Byles, Judy Mowatt, and Peter Tosh; and the dancehall singjays Capleton, Anthony B, and Macka B
all played wonderful roots tunes about the issues dealing with slavery and its impacts.
Burning Spear – Slavery Days
Burning Spear – I and I Survive
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Redemption Song (Band Version)
Junior Delgado & Lee “Scratch” Perry – Sons Of Slaves
Culture – Too Long In Slavery
Peter Tosh – Downpressor Man
Dennis Brown – Africa
Kabaka Pyramid – Never Gonna Be a Slave
Glen Brown – No More Slavery
Steel Pulse – Ku Klux Klan
Third World – 1865 (96º In The Shade)
Busy Signal – Modern Day Slavery
Stephen Marley – Old Slaves
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Slave Driver
Sly & Robbie – Slave Driver Dub
Gregory Isaacs & Soul Syndicate – Slavemaster
Peter Tosh & the Wailers – 400 Years (Jamaican Version)
Toots & the Maytals – Never Get Weary
Culture – Pay Day
Lloyd Parks – Slaving (Every Day)
Junior Byles & Lee “Scratch” Perry – A Place Called Africa
Lucky Dube – Slave
Beres Hammond – Another Day in the System
Stephen Marley – Made in Africa
Jah Bouks – No Slave
Black-Am-I – Modern Day Freedom
Third World – Human Market Place
Steel Pulse – African Holocaust
Sizzla – Make It Right (Remix)
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Redemption Song (Album Version)
NEED
Prince Malachi – Runaway Slave
Macka B – Effects Of Slavery
Delton Screechie – Sweet Africa
Winston Prince – A Place Called Africa
Bongo Herman – African Drums
Sylford Walker – Africa Homeland
King Tubby – Africa Dub
Audley Rollens – Repatriation
Judy Mowatt – Slave Queen
Capleton – Slave Master
Anthony B – Slavery
Wailing Souls – Modern Slavery
Gregory Isaacs – Slave Master Dub
Gregory Issacs & Ranking Buckers – Slave Master / Captives
Gregory Isaacs – Runaway Slave
Dennis Alcapone & Junior Byles – Africa Stand (Place Called Africa Version)