🎵This was the first Burning Spear album I bought. It’s also very devout and hard-core Rastafarian. Also very political, given it’s a homage to Marcus Garvey, who was a Jamaican political leader dedicated to the ‘Back to Africa’ movement. An anti-colonialist, he was also fairly controversial in the company he kept (the KKK) and being an anti-socialist, despite being a trade unionist.

However, the Rastafarians liked the back to Africa aspects of his politics and regarded him as a prophet who predicted the crowning of Haile Selassie (aka The Lion Of Juda) in Ethiopia.

Cover of Burning Spear record Marcus Garvey. The picture shows two figures holding spears. The title Marcus Garvey is written along the bottom of the picture and Burning Spear's name is diagonally at the top.
Cover of the Burning Spear record 'Marcus Garvey', released in December 1975.