This is a fantastic release from the enigmatic and irrepressible Lucky Dube, South Africa's reggae king. The release is a series of early afrobeat recordings and some later songs unreleased in the US. The songs to check out are obviously ''Rastas Never Die'', the live cover he does of The Wailer's ''One Love'' is sublime and of course the track ''Guns And Roses''. He is distinguishable from his soulful vocals and large range. The album comes with a DVD, which is of a live concert, which his band are decked out in army surplus gear and it has a very militant feel to it. The track that is personally my most favourite is the track ''Remember Me'', which is very tragic, considering the circumstances in which he died, shot to death in an attempted carjacking in 2007.
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