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Dread Beat an' Blood

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"Dread Beat an' Blood" is Linton Kwesi Johnson's debut album/recording project, documenting Black British political experience - policing, immigration, community resistance - in dub poetry form; it established the template Johnson and producer Dennis Bovell would refine across his subsequent records.

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Type: recording
Confidence: Well supported
Era: Open era →

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Poet and the Roots - Dread Beat and Blood

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