Poet and the Roots are a

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...

band formed to record dub poet

Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His p ...

's poems with dub backing tracks. The recordings were on the

Virgin Records Virgin Records is a record label owned by Universal Music Group. It originally founded as a British independent record label in 1972 by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman. It grew to be a worldwid ...

label.Poet And The Roots
at Discogs. Johnson released his later material under his own name, although some of the musicians from this group appeared on his subsequent albums.

Discography

Album

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Dread Beat an' Blood ''Dread Beat an' Blood'' is the debut album by Poet and the Roots released in 1978 on the Front Line label. It was produced by Vivian Weathers and Linton Kwesi Johnson. The "Poet" is dub poet Johnson and "the Roots" are Dennis Bovell, Lloyd "J ...

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, 1978

Singles

* "All Wi Doin' Is Defendin'", Virgin Records, 1977 * "It Dread Inna Inglan (For George Lindo)", Virgin Records, 1978

References

British reggae musical groups Musical groups from London {{Reggae-stub