Our Music
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Our Music is a studio album by Jamaica
n reggae
singer Burning Spear
.
It was nominated for a Grammy Award
for Best Reggae Album
at the 48th Grammy Awards in 2006.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
n reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
singer Burning Spear
Burning Spear
Winston Rodney, OD , also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.-History:...
.
It was nominated for a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Best Reggae Album
Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album
The Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the reggae music genre...
at the 48th Grammy Awards in 2006.
Track listing
- "Our Music"
- "Try Again"
- "Down In Jamaica"
- "Together" (ext. mix)
- "Friends"
- "O' Rastaman"
- "Fix Me"
- "Walk"
- "One Marcus"
- "My Duty"
- "Little Garvey" (ext. mix)
Credits
- All songs written and arranged by Winston Rodney
- Published by Burning Spear Publishing
- Recorded and edited by Barry O'Hare at The Magic Shop New York, New York
- Assisted by Benedetto Nino Caccavale
- Mastered by Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound
- Burning Spear Music (ASCAP)
- Photography by Mark SeligerMark SeligerMark Seliger is an American photographer noted for his portraiture.Seliger was born in Amarillo, Texas and attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, and Texas A&M University–Commerce. Seliger served as the chief photographer for Rolling Stone from 1992 to 2002 and...
- Design by Helicopter
- DVD Footage by Carter Van Pelt
- Website Manager: Adam Z
- Horn Arrangement by Winston Rodney and The Section
- Special Thanks: To all the musicians the assisted on the project, the staff at The Magic Shop, Sonia Rodney, Video Crew, Disc MakersDisc MakersDisc Makers is primarily a CD and DVD manufacturer that caters to independent musicians, filmmakers, and small businesses. Disc Makers competes with many established CD and DVD replicators in North America including , , , , , and ....
, Carter Van Pelt and to All Burning Spear Fans All Over The World
Musicians
- Winston Rodney - lead vocals, percussion, background vocals
- Leroy "Horsemouth" WallaceLeroy WallaceLeroy "Horsemouth" Wallace is a Jamaican drummer who worked for several years at Studio One, and has worked with numerous reggae artists including The Gladiators, Inner Circle, Prince Far I, Sound Dimension, Gregory Isaacs, Burning Spear, Ijahman Levi and Pierpoljak. He starred as himself in the...
- drums - Karl Wright - drums (My Duty, Little Garvey)
- Ian "Beezy" Coleman - rhythm guitar, bass guitar, lead guitar
- Linford Carby - rhythm guitar
- I Palmer - bass guitar
- David Rekhley - bass guitar (My Duty, Little Garvey)
- Michael Hyde (musician) - keyboards
- Earl Appleton - keyboards (My Duty, Little Garvey)
- Donovan Mackity - lead guitar
- Andy Bassford - lead guitar
- Cecil Ordonez - lead guitar (Fix Me)
- Chino SmithChino SmithCharles "Chino" Smith was an American outfielder in Negro league baseball who was one of the Negro leagues' most skillful hitters of the mid-1920s and early 1930s. He stood only 5'6" tall but could hit the ball with prodigious power and efficiency. In fact, Satchel Paige called him one of the two...
- lead guitar - Kevin Batchelor - trumpet
- Jason Jackson (musician) - trombone
- Jerry Johnson (musician) - saxophone
- Marie Thomas - background vocals
- Melanie Lynch - background vocals
- Joanne Williams - background vocals
- Simone Gordon - background vocals
- Celia Chavez - background vocals
- Num H.S. Amun’Tehu - background vocals, percussion
- Patrick Gordon (musician) - background vocals