Global A Go-Go presents:

 

There’s a lot of music I listened to in 1978 that I’m no longer interested in.  And there are a few things that are as timely and compelling now as they were then.

Linton Kwesi Johnson’s poems of the 70s and 80s written about England’s National Front, the Brixton Uprising and the death of Blair Peach could just as easily have been about USA 2020’s Unite The Right, the Black Lives Matter movement and George Floyd.  If you’re personally or emotionally involved in the movement today, when you listen to Johnson perform his poems you’ll think he was forecasting your present.

This week (Monday August 24, 3:00-5:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site) Global A Go-Go presents a two-hour special on the poetry and music of Linton Kwesi Johnson, on the occasion of his 68th birthday and his recent award of the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize.

Podcast: radio4all.net/index.php/program/106446

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Playlist:

    Time: August 24 - 11:00:00 am
  • Matador Of 1st & 1st

    Oliver Lake, “Separation”

    from Matador Of 1st & 1st

    Passin Thru - 1996

    USA

  • Time: August 24 - 11:01:00 am
  • Global a Go-Go

    Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a GO-GO”

    from Global a Go-Go

    BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 11:06:00 am
  • Dread Beat an' Blood

    Poet And The Roots, “Five Nights of Bleeding”

    from Dread Beat an' Blood

    Front Line - 1978

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 11:10:29 am
  • Forces Of Victory

    Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)”

    from Forces Of Victory

    Island Records - 1979

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 11:14:19 am
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson, “New Craas Massahkah”

    from Making History

    Mango - 1984

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 11:24:00 am
  • Greatest Hits Anthology

    U-Roy, “Wear You to the Ball”

    from Greatest Hits Anthology

    Shaklow - 1970

    Jamaica

  • Time: August 24 - 11:27:28 am
  • Winston Williams, “Sweet Like Candy”

    from Sweet Like Candy - single

    Smash - 1970

    Jamaica

  • Time: August 24 - 11:30:00 am
  • Ultimate Collection

    Dillinger, “Cokane In My Brain”

    from Ultimate Collection

    Observer Music - 1974

    Jamaica

  • Time: August 24 - 11:33:00 am
  • Gussie Presenting I-Roy

    I. Roy, “Black Man Time”

    from Gussie Presenting I-Roy

    Trojan Records - 1973

    Jamaica

  • Time: August 24 - 11:37:40 am
  • 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Peter Tosh

    Peter Tosh, “Here Comes the Judge”

    from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Peter Tosh

    Hip-O (PG Admin) - 1971

    Jamaica

  • Time: August 24 - 11:44:00 am
  • Forces Of Victory

    Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Fite Dem Back”

    from Forces Of Victory

    Island Records - 1979

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 11:48:00 am
  • Dread Beat an' Blood

    Poet And The Roots, “Man Free (For Darcus Howe)”

    from Dread Beat an' Blood

    Front Line - 1978

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 11:54:00 am
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Reggae Fi Peach”

    from Bass Culture

    Island - 1980

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 11:56:00 am
  • LKJ In Dub

    Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Peach Dub”

    from LKJ In Dub

    Island - 1980

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 12:04:00 pm
  • Caribbean Roots

    Anthony Joseph, “Caribbean Roots”

    from Caribbean Roots

    Heavenly Sweetness / Strut - 2016

    Trinidad & Tobago-England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 12:13:00 pm
  • Calabash Afrobeat-Poems By Ikwunga Vol.1

    Ikwunga, “Di Bombs”

    from Calabash Afrobeat-Poems By Ikwunga Vol.1

    Rebisi Hut Records - 2004

    Nigeria-USA

  • Time: August 24 - 12:23:00 pm
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Inglan Is A Bitch”

    from Bass Culture

    Island - 1980

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 12:28:00 pm
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Di Black Petty Booshwah”

    from Bass Culture

    Island - 1980

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 12:32:00 pm
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Di Eagle An' Di Bear”

    from Di Eagle An' Di Bear / Wat About Di Workin' Claas? - single

    Island - 1984

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 12:43:00 pm
  • The Imagined Village

    Benjamin Zephaniah & Eliza Carthy with Trans-Global Underground and Simon Emmerson, “Tam Lyn Retold”

    from The Imagined Village

    Real World Records - 2007

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 12:53:22 pm
  • Angles

    dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, “Thou Shalt Always Kill”

    from Angles

    Sunday Best Recordings - 2008

    England UK

  • Time: August 24 - 12:56:51 pm
  • Endangered Species

    Nickodemus feat. Real Live Show & Nappy G, “Give the Drummer Some”

    from Endangered Species

    Wonderwheel Recordings - 2005

    USA

    Global A Go-Go    August 24th, 2020

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