Anthology Music Cd

Johnny Clegg - Anthology

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Anthology      Artist : Johnny Clegg      List Price : $13.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2000-03-07      Studio : Valley      Label : Valley      Avg. Customer Rating : (5 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Anthology      Johnny Live!      Rating:      -recently went to Nelson Mandela Theater in Joburg SA to see JC live , fantastic! Albums don't do his music and performance justice. Was "shaking the Tree"long before P. Gabriel!!--ozpal     Customer Reviews for Anthology Cd      A great sampler of one of music's great innovators      Rating:      Before Paul Simon amazed the world with Graceland, Johnny Clegg and Juluka were breaking the law in South Africa simply by playing together. While the world lay in shock when Nelson Mandela was imprisioned, Johnny Clegg's politically active lyrics questioned all authority in South Africa. This album takes the lyrical political astuteness of Rage Against the Machine, the beats of Afro Celt Soundsystem, and the lush melodies and harmonies of R.E.M. and creates something wonderful. Early Juluka classics like Universal Men, High Country, Woza Friday, Scatterlings of Africa and Kilimanjaro are deeply moving, and Savuka hits like Great Heart (later covered by Jimmy Buffet), Take My Heart Away, and an astounding live version of Asimbonanga, Clegg's tribute to Mandela, this album will touch anyone with a heart, move anyone with a soul, and inspire anyone with feet to dance with. Clegg's voice, either speaking rhythmic English or more rhythmic Zulu, is beautiful, and his word moreso. Perhaps the only songs missing from here are Too Early For The Sky, Human Rainbow and African Shadow Man, all off his Shadow Man album, which is sorely absent on this collection. But Clegg is an amazing musician and songwriter, and if you do not know him yet, I urge you to seek him out.