Poet And The Roots
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Poet and the Roots are a reggae
band formed to record dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson
's poems with dub reggae backing tracks.
Johnson released his later material under his own name, although some of the musicians from this group appeared on his subsequent albums.
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...
band formed to record dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson is a UK-based dub poet. He became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Classics series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British...
's poems with dub reggae backing tracks.
Johnson released his later material under his own name, although some of the musicians from this group appeared on his subsequent albums.