Bad Man Possee

Description

Bad Man Possee is a classic early 1980s dub reggae recording by Junior Murvin, who made a name for himself working with Lee "Scratch" Perry on his debut album Police & Thieves in 1976. This album features moving hypnotic tracks to accompany the hit title song. "Guitar" is a strange ode to Murvin's first guitar, cleverly riding on a head-nodding rhythm provided by the studio musicians Dread At The Controls, the Roots Radics Band. As Murvin shifts gears quite mercurially, from the lost love reminiscence of "Never Fall in Love" to the politically charged "Rebellion," the high quality of the music remains consistent throughout the album. Murvin's exceptional doo-wop inspired falsetto is a unique nod to the R&B tradition as well as to the styles of ska, rocksteady, and dub. Murvin concludes the album with a simply stunning version of "Man Is the Fire."