Sinead O'Connor: back with a reggae album

Recorded in Kingston’s Tuff Gong studios with Sly & Robbie producing, the tracklisting is: ‘Jah Nuh Dead’, ‘Marcus Garvey’, ‘Door Prep’, ‘He Prayed’, ‘Y Mas Gan’, ‘Curly Locks’, ‘Vampire’, ‘Prophet Has Arise’, ‘Downpressor Man’, ‘Throw Down Your Arms’, ‘Untold Stories’ and ‘War’.
Penned by the likes of Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Lee Perry and Winston Rodney, they amount to a musical history of Jamaica.
“The originals of these songs could never be bettered,” O’Connor reflects, “so all I can hope in recording them is to honour the composers and pass on their teachings in the hope that doing so will carry the message of Rastafarai to some who might otherwise not know that God and religion are two very different things."
According to well-placed sources, the Dubliner is planning an extensive US tour, which will include two nights in New York’s Webster Hall.