Vinyl records

Linton Kwesi Johnson vinyl records

6 albums with 119 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ), born 24 August 1952, Chapelton, Clarendon, Jamaica and move to Brixton, London, UK at 9 so is a British-based author and dub poet. In high school, he joined the English "Black Panther" who helped him create a poetry workshop and then joined a small group of percussionists and poets, the "Rasta Love". He began to be published in the magazine "Race Today" in 1973 after graduating in sociology. He released his first book of poetry in 1974 (Voices of the Living and the Dead) followed by his second in 1975 (Dread Beat an' Blood) which was the title of his first album in 1978.