Blackheart Man

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Customer reviews

review by: ziggi date: 2008-07-17 rating:
In all Righteousness!!
`Question is does Bunny sound like Bob, or does Bob sound like Bunny!? No matter, the inspirational source is the same and the result is exultation, as the Blackheart man gives praise to the most high!

Purchased as an after thought while looking for some Burning Spear, this album has kept me so sweet since buying it over a week ago. Tracks 5 & 7 are the only weak points on this solid Roots- Rock- Steady offering. `The Oppressed Song' and `Bide Up' are like medicine for the soul. Buy this. I defy you to be disappointed!

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review by: Doreyqueen date: 2008-05-14 rating:
Fairly dissapointed.... average album, there is much better.....
Its not particularily good, but its not bad. That is putting it simply. You can definately hear the Wailers sound to this album. Some songs I really like such as 'Bide Up' and 'Dream Land' and a few others, but I thought much of it was pretty average. After seeing the reviews up on here, I thought, 'wow I must be missing out on something really amazing here' as I am quite the reggae fan, but it was not as good as it was made out to be.
I think that if you are a fan of albums such as 'Exodus' and that style of reggae, then this would be for you, but if like me you prefer Ska, Dub or EARLY Roots like Toots & the Maytals or KIng Tubby or something, then this may not be the perfect choice.

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review by: Mutant Dog date: 2008-04-22 rating:
Survival of the fittest
An album of consistent quality (all killers no fillers) is arguably a rarity in reggae; think of even the best Bob Marley albums there are high low points. Most historic Reggae music comes from a time where the single ruled rather than the album concept. This is an album with a flowing consistency and concept.

Previous reviewers are rightly in rapture over it; it is one of the finest reggae albums I have ever known. Its not a listen once a week or month type album like some are, but when your in the mood for it will be waiting there for you on the shelve and you'll be glad it is.

Sound wise it's perhaps of a rougher quality than the famous Marley records. Its definitely more roots. It has an element of Nyabhingi to the style of playing and the choice of instruments, but with a modern (70's) vibe to it. The star of the show is Bunny's vocals. Whilst this album features Tosh as a player and some backing vocals by others (including Bob) most of the vocals you hear are Bunny. If I had to sum this album up I call it a reverb drenched soup of the beautiful harmonies and the many textures of Bunny's voice.

I think this album would suit someone bridging the gap between being interested in Bob Marley and becoming obsessed by Reggae.

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review by: baudolino date: 2007-09-21 rating:
Coptic Freemasonry
Bunny Wailer's father Thaddeus "Toddy" Livingston was a leading figure within Jamaican Coptic Freemasonry, and tunes like "Amagideon" on this album are replete with Gnostic and Masonic imagery - but enough about that.

This LP was a long time in the gestation - "Reincarnated Souls" uses a rejected mix from the "Catch A Fire" sessions, while "This Train" is a remake a tune he recorded at WIRL in 1967 for the Wail'N'Soul'M label. During his so-called forgotten period between leaving the Wailers in 1973 and this LP, Bunny had been fairly prolific on the JA scene, with records like "Bide Up", "Arab Oil Weapon" and his collaboration with Peter Tosh "You Can't Blame The Youth", so this album didn't really spring from nowhere.

All that notwithstanding, it features some of his finest compositions, sympathetically produced, with some glorious backing musicians; "Fighting Against Oppression", "Fig Tree", the title track and "Amagideon" (later released as a solo melodica cut by Peter Tosh on Solomonic called "Anti-Apartheid") are standout tracks, but thw whole album remains one of reggae's peaks


review by: ralphdogmusiclover date: 2007-04-28 rating:
your heart will be opened up by this
this is an album of great subtlety, reggae is in the background in this music in favour of Bunny the poet yet the musical tones and nuances are so softly and delicately intertwined with the delicious evoctive vocal that at the end of the album you are left at equal times drained yet invigorated. Am I making sense? Don't die before you have listened to this.

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