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. Burning Spear supported the album with a North American tour.

Critical reception

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'' wrote that "''Mistress Music'' seems to be a logical step in a process by which Spear is trying to make his music more accessible without making more than minor concessions to commercialism."

Track listing

#"Tell The Children" #"Leader" #"Woman, I Love You" #"One Way" #"Negril" #"Mistress Music" #"Love Garvey" #"Tell Me, Tell Me" #"Say You Are In Love" #"Fly Me To The Moon"

Credits

*All Songs Written By

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*Published By Burning Spear Publishing PRS *Executive Producer - A Burning Music Production 18 Hill Street, St. Ann's Bay *Recorded At - Tuff Gong Recording Studios, Kingston, Jamaica *Recording Engineer - Gary Sutherland *Mixed At - Sound Ideas Studio, New York *Mixing Engineers - Michael Sauvage and Mervyn Williams *Assistant - Joe Pirrera *Mastered By - Brian Gardner and Matt Wallace at Grundman Mastering, Los Angeles *Photography - Lendon Flanagan *Illustration - Oscar Moreno

Musicians

* Burning Spear - vocals, harmony *Devon Bradshaw - bass *

- drums *Anthony Bradshaw - guitar, harmony *Lenford Richards - lead guitar *Alvin Haughton - percussion *Jennifer Hill - saxophone ("Love Garvey" and "Say You Are In Love") *

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- trumpet ("Love Garvey," "Say You Are In Love," and solo on "Fly Me To The Moon") *Nilda Richards - trombone ("Love Garvey" and "Say You Are In Love") Additional Musicians *

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- synthesizers, piano *

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- saxophone *Ronald "Nambo" Robinson - trombone *Junior "Chico" Chin - trumpet *Michael Sauvage - piano ("Mistress Music")

References

{{Authority control Burning Spear albums 1988 albums Slash Records albums