Social Living
The 1978 album with Aswad and Sly Dunbar, also known as Marcus' Children.
Burning Spear, 1978
- Released
- 1978
- Studio
- Harry J Studio, Kingston, and Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas
- Producer
- Karl Pitterson and Burning Spear
Social Living, also known as Marcus' Children, was released in 1978 and produced by Karl Pitterson and Burning Spear. It was recorded at Harry J Studio in Kingston and at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, with Sylvan Morris as engineer, and mixed at Compass Point by Pitterson and Benji Armbrister. Aswad provided backing, and Sly Dunbar and Rico Rodriguez also play on it. A dub version, Living Dub, followed in 1979, mixed by Morris.
Christgau gave it an A-, finding it less militant and archetypal than Marcus Garvey but a record whose music is all charity and cooperation. He pointed to the title song, where Rodney preaches that social living is the best. Sinéad O'Connor later covered Marcus Say Jah No Dead on her 2005 album Throw Down Your Arms.
Track listing
- Marcus Children Suffer4:39
- Social Living2:49
- Nyah Keith4:03
- Institution3:29
- Marcus Senior5:09
- Civilized Reggae7:11
- Mister Garvey4:52
- Come3:53
- Marcus Say Jah No Dead3:57
Personnel
- Winston Rodney percussion
- Earl "Chinna" Smith guitar
- Bertram "Ranchie" McLean guitar
- Brinsley Forde guitar
- Donald "Roots" Kinsey guitar
- Donald Griffiths guitar
- Lowell "Sly" Dunbar drums
- Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace drums
- Angus Gaye drums
- Robbie Shakespeare bass
- Aston "Family Man" Barrett bass
- George Oban bass
- Bernard "Touter" Harvey keyboards
- Earl "Wire" Lindo keyboards
- Michael "Ibo" Cooper keyboards
- Courtney Hemmings keyboards
- Bobby Ellis trumpet
- Dick Cuthell trumpet
- Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall tenor saxophone
- Herman Marquis alto saxophone
- Vincent "Trommie" Gordon trombone
- Rico Rodriguez trombone
- Uziah "Sticky" Thompson percussion
- Sylvan Morris engineer
More from Burning Spear
Marcus Garvey (1975), Garvey's Ghost (1976), Man in the Hills (1976), Dry & Heavy (1977)
Sources
- Marcus' Children (Social Living), Wikipedia
- Burning Spear, Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau
- Burning Spear, Wikipedia
- Aswad, Wikipedia
- Throw Down Your Arms, Wikipedia