Consumer Guide Album

Burning Spear: Mistress Music [Slash, 1988]
This kicks off with one of Spear's strongest and strangest songs--"Tell the Children," which rather than inculcating them with doctrine informs them she's their mother but Spear's not their father. What's the mystical symbolism, one wonders. Answer: there is none. With the third song called "Woman I Love You" and the fifth all "Girl I love you," I guess this is just music for his mistress--or to be precise, mistresses. B