Blackheart Man - Bunny Wailer (1976)

Описание: "Blackheart Man" is title song of the debut album by Bunny Wailer, originally released September 1976. I love reggae music, and especially the music of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer and "Blackheart Man" was one of the first reggae albums I remember buying, I was in high school at the time and just getting into the genre. I love the track and happy to have done something reggae for the first time in a long time. If you're a fan already, hope you enjoy the effort....and if you've not heard the song before, I hope you enjoy it....and the video! Back to our regular scheduled prog/rock vids next! Please like, comment, and share to get this video a chance to be seen! Thanks all!

About the artist/album/song:
The album features some of Jamaica's leading musicians and also contributions from Bob Marley and Peter Tosh of The Wailers on backing vocals, and the Wailers rhythm section of Carlton and Aston Barrett on some of the tracks. The origins of the album title goes back to Wailer's childhood in the Jamaican countryside, where he grew up in the same village as his friend Bob Marley.

Regarding the title track, Wailer stated:
"The Blackheart Man is a very serious fable; when we were kids, we all grew up hearing about this Blackheart Man, and we were told that you had to be careful of strangers who might walk up to you and invite you into a situation, or you might be found in the lonely countryside, or in the gullies, or anywhere that this individual might have shown up, and then he would take your heart out. So it brought fear on all the youths of that time when they heard the name, Blackheart Man. So I did the album based on my experiences."

This is one of the three Wailers solo albums released in 1976, along with Peter Tosh's album Legalize It and Bob Marley's Rastaman Vibration. The album was listed in the 1999 book The Rough Guide: Reggae: 100 Essential CDs.

About the audio:
A newly adjusted and fantastic sounding audio mix using 24-bit sourced track from Sparky!

About the video:
I've made a few reggae videos, but it has been many years since the last one. I wanted to try something for "Blackheart Man" as next reggae upload. I was disappointed that I wasn't able to better present the message I believe the song is meant to convey better, but I struggled trying to contrast the myth of the "Blackheart Man" and the stigma of a "blackheart man". I hope you enjoy what I was able to with video for this great song!

[Lyrics]
Tikya the Blackheart Man, children
I say, don't go near him
Tikya the Blackheart Man children
For even lions fear him
Tikya the Blackheart Man, children
I say, don't go near him
Tikya the Blackheart Man children
For even lions fear him
Growing in a neighbourhood for such along time
That is filled with fear
I can't go here, can't go there
And I ain't supposed to go anywhere
When I ask my Mom if she could let me go out and play
She said be careful of the stranger
Giving candies to children
And then take them away
He lives in the gullies of the city
He's the Blackheart Man (The blackheart Man)
Even in the lonely parts of the country
He's the Blackheart Man, Blackheart Man
Got no friend, no home, no family
He's the Blackheart 'Man, The Blackheart Man
He is famed to live just like the Gypsy
He's the Blackheart 'Man, The Blackheart Man
Growing and learning and gathering, for myself a little more
Experience jumping over the fence
Curiousity has brought me yes it's brought me, a little common-sense
Trodding the road of life, I've come to this one conclusion
That everything is equal under the sun, all that is createdby JAH mighty hand
And he said knock and it shall be opened
Seek and Ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places,
In the nick of time, knock and it shall be opened
Seek and ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places, in the nick of
Time and now I trod the same road of aflictions just like the
Blackheart Man, just like the Blackheart Man
Getting my share of humiliation just like the Blackheart Man
Just like the Blackheart Man
You'll find me even in the prison of the dungeons
Just like the Blackheart Man, just like the the Blackheart Man
I even get blamed without a reason just like the Blackheart Man
Just like the Blackheart man yau
No cross, no crown, no sorrow, no trial and crosses In-a-I way
But the hotter the battle is the sweeter JAH JAH victory
Ancient children use to say if you want good
Your nose got to run run run
How could the world go free, and let JAH bear the cross alone
And them that drink of the old wine hath no place for the new
For the new and the stones that are head of the corner are the
Same one that the builders refused
Now, it's the Blackheart Man, children
Who've become the wonder of the city (rep).
For the new and the stones that are head of the corner are the
Same ones that the builders refused
Now hear me when I say
It's the Blackheart Man, children
Who've become the wonder of the city