Album Of The Week! Barrington Levy – Teach Me Culture (1983)

BARRINGTON LEVY ‘TEACH ME CULTURE’ (LIVE AND LEARN) 1983

Without question, Barrington Levy’s strongest effort is 1983’s ‘Teach Me Culture,’ engineered by Crucial Bunny and featuring the Roots Radics. What rules this album is the Radics’ riddims, each one more dangerous than the previous, and Levy’s lyrics. Whether singing about a neglectful father in “One Foot Jo Jo” or hungry children in “Don’t Pretend,” this album transports us back to a time when Levy was still hungry. That he was prolific is not surprising. That he was able to continually come with material this strong for some 15 years is stunning. Just a jawbreaker from beginning to end.

Don’t Pretend
Teach Me Culture
To Love Someone
Lonely Man
One Foot Jo Jo
Now A Days
Jah Is With Me
Trying To Rule My Life
Mind You Hurt My Mom