Resistance is a studio album by Jamaica

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:...

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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 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Resistance, Spear's first release for Heartbeat, is regarded as one of Burning Spear's most solid albums, and reflects the atmospheric sound that defined Spear in the early eighties. This sound is also reflected in the albums Fittest of the Fittest and Farover, both of which were released on EMI. Burning Spear would venture into more modern, electric driven rhythms on his follow-up release People of the World, released on Slash Records.

Track listing

1. "Resistance"
2. "Mek We Yadd"
3. "Holy Foundation"
4. "Queen of the Mountain"
5. "The Force"
6. "Jah Say"
7. "We Been There"
8. "Jah Feeling"
9. "Love To You"

Credits

• All songs written by Winston Rodney/Burning Spear Publishing, except "Queen of the Mountain," written by Winston Rodney and Noel Hamil/Burning Spear Publishing
• Recorded and mixed at Tuff Gong
  Tuff Gong
  Tuff Gong is a record label that was formed by the reggae group The Wailers in 1970 and named after Bob Marley's nickname, which was in turn an echo of that given to founder of the Rastafari movement, Leonard "The Gong" Howell. The first single on the label was "Run For Cover" by The Wailers...
  
   Studio Recording, Kingston, Jamaica
• Engineer - Errol Brown
  Errol Brown (engineer)
  -Biography:Brown is the nephew of the late Duke Reid, the pioneer of Treasure Isle recording studio. Educated at Kingston Technical High School, where he did radio and television, Brown was trained as an audio engineer at Treasure Isle studios by Byown Smith and Duke Reid.Brown recorded artist such...
  
  
• Assistance by Chris Lewis and Mervin Williams
• Art concept and photography - Wicked and Wild
• Special thanks to Eric Greenspan, Esq., Jack Nuber, David Young, Skyline Studios and Christian Dalbixie.
• Thanks also for assistance to: Aston "Familyman" Barrett
  Aston Barrett
  Aston Barrett , often called "Family Man" or "Fams" for short, is a Jamaican bass player and Rastafarian.-Biography:...
  
  , Tyrone Downie
  Tyrone Downie
  Tyrone Downie is a Jamaican keyboardist/pianist who is most known for his involvement as a member of Bob Marley and The Wailers. He studied at Kingston College and joined the wailers in the mid-1970s, making his recording début with the band on Rastaman Vibration, having previously been a member of...
  
  , Earl Lindo
  Earl Lindo
  Earl "Wire" Lindo, b. 7 January 1953 is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is a member of The Wailers and has collaborated with numerous reggae artists including Burning Spear.-Biography:...
  
  , Junior Marvin
  Junior Marvin
  Junior Marvin also known as Junior Marvin-Hanson, Junior Hanson and Junior Kerr. He is a Jamaican born guitarist and singer and is best known for his association with Bob Marley and The Wailers. He started his career as Junior Marvin with the band Hanson in 1973...
  
  , Elias Rodney.

Musicians

• Winston Rodney - vocals, akete drum
• Anthony Bradshaw - bass
• Nelson Miller
  Nelson Miller
  Nelson Miller is a Jamaican drummer and record producer. Miller was born and raised in Port Antonio. Influenced by Lloyd Knibb, Carlton "Santa" Davis, and Mikey "Boo" Richards, he began playing in bands in Port Antonio as a teenager....
  
   - drums, funde
• Lenford Richards - lead guitar
• Devon Bradshaw - rhythm guitar
• Richard Johnson - piano, Casio MT40, organ, Fender Rhodes
• Alvin Haughton - percussion
• Robbie Lyn - synthesizers
• Bobby Ellis
  Bobby Ellis
  Bobby Ellis born 2 July 1932, is a Jamaican trumpet player. He has worked with many reggae artists including Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, and The Revolutionaries.-Biography:...
  
   - trumpet, flugelhorn
• David Madden
  David Madden
  David Madden may refer to:*David Madden , American novelist*David Madden , Australian entrepreneur associated with progressive causes*David M. Madden, former mayor of Weymouth, Massachusetts*Dave Madden, Canadian actor...
  
   - trumpet
• Ronald "Nambo" Robinson - trombone
• Dean Fraser
  Dean Fraser
  Dean Fraser is a Jamaican saxophonist who has contributed to hundreds of reggae recordings since the mid-1970s. He was awarded the Musgrave Medal by the Jamaican government in 1993 in recognition of his services to music.-Biography:Fraser started to play the clarinet at the age of 12...
  
   - saxophone

Additional musicians

• Junior "Chico" Chin - trumpet
• Glen Dacosta - tenor saxophone
• Herman Marquis
  Herman Marquis
  Herman Marquis is a Jamaican saxophone musician who has played with many reggae artists including Burning Spear. He recorded for Arthur "Duke" Reid in the 1960s and was a member of The Revolutionaries and The Upsetters in the 1970s...
  
   - saxophone
• Michael Wilson
  Michael Wilson (guitarist)
  Michael George Wilson is currently a Christian/Gospel Songwriter and Musician living in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He was formerly most known for being an intricate part of Burning Spear's comeback during the late 70s through the early 80s.-References:*Burningspear.com...
  
   - lead guitar, rhythm guitar
• Anthony Johnson
  Anthony Johnson (musician)
  Roy Anthony Johnson , better known simply as Anthony Johnson, is a Jamaican reggae singer who was a member of the group Mystic I and is known for the 1980s hit song "Gunshot".-Biography:...
  
  - keyboards
• Barry Bailey - trombone
• Calvin Cameron - trombone
• Winston Wright - piano, clavinet
• Peter Ashbourne - Prophet 5