The 4th Street Albums Collection
DOCTOR BIRD
8/10
BY the mid 1970s, Dennis ‘Blackbeard’ Bovell was already a key player in British roots and reggae. His history with the music stretched back to the mid-’60s, when he started his Jah Sufferer sound system, but it was in 1976 – and as a producer. He’s possibly better known as the latter, thanks to his involvement in post-punk touchstones like The Slits’ and The Pop Group’s . Contemporaneously, he was a pioneer of lovers rock, writing and producing several of the genre’s sacred texts, including Louisa Mark’s “Caught You In A Lie” and Janet Kay’s “Silly Games”.
