LKJ in Dub
Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox". Script error: No such module "Listen". LKJ in Dub is an album by the Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1980 on Island Records.[1] It was produced by Dennis Bovell (credited as Blackbeard). It contains dub versions of tracks from the two previous LKJ albums, Forces of Victory and Bass Culture.[2]
Critical reception
Template:Album ratings Trouser Press called the album "an interesting and successful example of dub technique."[1] The New York Times compared the album to Bovell's recent I Wah Dub, calling LKJ in Dub "a less gimmicky, more emotionally satisfying piece of work."[3] The Boston Globe wrote that "there are some nice grooves here, but with no voice to sing, no soloing instruments, not even a stray Frippertronic to hang onto, it's hard to recommend this album."[4]
Track listing
All tracks written by Linton Kwesi Johnson
- "Victorious Dub" – 3:32
- "Reality [dub]" – 2:45
- "Peach Dub" – 3:48
- "Shocking [dub]" – 4:45
- "Iron Bar Dub" – 3:42
- "Bitch Dub" – 4:35
- "Cultural Dub" – 3:27
- "Brain Smashing Dub" – 3:27
Personnel
- Floyd Lawson, Vivian Weathers - bass guitar
- Winston Curniffe - drums
- Lloyd "Jah Bunny" Donaldson - drums, percussion
- John Kpiaye - guitar
- Julio Finn - harmonica
- Dennis Bovell, Webster Johnson - keyboards
- Clinton Bailey, Everard Forrest - percussion
- James Danton - alto saxophone
- Rico - trombone
- Dick Cuthell, Henry "Buttons" Tenyue - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Technical
- Dennis Bovell - mixing
- Dennis Morris - cover design