Produced and Directed by the Upsetter (1998)

About this title: Like most albums credited to Lee "Scratch" Perry, this one is actually a collection of performances by various reggae artists, some of them famous (the Heptones, the Meditations, Junior Murvin), others obscure (Easton Clarke, Winstone Heywood), but all of them touched by that particular pungent magic that hung like smoke in the air at Perry's legendary Black Ark studio (until Perry himself burned it down, for reasons still not entirely clear). Perry's production style was utterly idiosyncratic, and never more so than when he was recording Kingston's finest talent in that primitive four-track ... read more

Tracks:

1. I Man Free
2. Free Man
3. Zion
4. Zion Version
5. Bike No Licence
6. Unlicensed Dub
7. Crying Over You [Sibbles]
8. Crying Dub
9. Financial Crisis
10. Financial Dub
11. False Teachings
12. Teachers Dub
13. Backbiting
14. Chastising Dub
15. Houses of Parliament
16. Dub of Parliament
17. Guide Line
18. Dub Line
19. Philistines on the Land
20. Bingo Kid

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.