Sizzla Black Woman & Child CD

Personnel: Sizzla (vocals); E. Wilks, D. Browne (guitar); D. Fraser, (saxophone, background vocals); Saxie (saxophone); Nambo (trombone); P. Enton (piano, keyboards, bass, drums); B. Ohare, Jazzwad (keyboards, bass, drums); D. Dennis, B. Myers (keyboards, bass); P. Crossdale (keyboards); Robert Shakespeare (bass); M. Miller, Sly Dunbar, Paul (drums); Bongo Herman, Dish (congas); M. Gitten, D. Browne (background vocals).
Producers: Bobby Digital Dixon, The Crew For Digital B Music LTD.
Recorded at Digital B Studio, Kingston, Jamaica.
Sizzla's Black Woman & Child is one of the most highly regarded dancehall albums in the genre. It has been very hard to find in America since its original release in 1997, but VP Records has tried to keep the distribution of the album going, even re-releasing it in early 2002. The album is thought of highly because of its positive message and political leanings, something that the genre usually lacks. Fans of the genre should try to give this a listen. ~ Bradley Torreano
Sizzla's Black Woman & Child is one of the most highly regarded dancehall albums in the genre. It has been very hard to find in America since its original release in 1997, but VP Records has tried to keep the distribution of the album going, even re-releasing it in early 2002. The album is thought of highly because of its positive message and political leanings, something that the genre usually lacks. Fans of the genre should try to give this a listen. ~ Bradley Torreano
Whether accounts of his outspoken, controversial sociopolitical pronouncements are exaggeration or even pure rumor, they perfectly encapsulate the quality that has made Sizzla such a sensation in the Jamaican dancehall. His is an uncompromising millenarian vision more akin to the urgent roots style made famous by Burning Spear, Black Uhuru and Bob Marley than any of his deejay contemporaries. BLACK WOMAN & CHILD is compiled and produced by the original Bobby Digital, (the Jamaican producer who oversaw Buju's re-birth as a conscious deejay on TIL SHILOH, not RZA's alter ego). More than any other album, it represents the style and the songs which assured Sizzla his cult status among devotees of "conscious" music.Mojo (Publisher) (p.54) - Ranked #99 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "No question, the reggae album of MOJO's lifetime."
Mojo (Publisher) (8/02, p.78) - Included in Mojo's 50 Greatest Reggae Albums - "...It remains one of his most fully realised works..."