Review of Live by Black Uhuru
Artist: Black Uhuru
Album title: Live
Release year: 1995
Label: Sonic
Genre: Reggae
Rating: 8 out of 10

Track listing:
Eden
Peace and Love
Army Band
What Is Life?
Anthem
Crack
So Many Years
Thinking About You
Imposter
Freedom Fighter
Hey Joe

Review: Recorded during a 1994 tour by the fourth lineup of one of reggae's longest-running acts, featuring band founder Derrick Duckie Simpson and vocalists Don Carlos and Garth Dennis--both of whom had been in early versions of the band before the classic Michael Rose-Puma Jones lineup of the late '70s and early '80s--BLACK UHURU LIVE is one of the most exciting live reggae albums of the '90s. Reaching back into the Rose-Jones songbook for Uhuru classics like Anthem, as well as sterling versions of more recent material like the rude-boy updating of the American garage-rock anthem Hey Joe, the trio are in excellent voice, and the backing band, led as always by the rhythm section of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, smokes throughout. Excellent stuff.