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Mark Wonder: True Stories of Mark Wonder

  Tobias Fischer

This to-date retrospective of the Jamaica-born reggae guy begins with the not-really-representatively-poppy “So Long” as guested by Luciano, whose turn is more unplugged-Big Mountain-like than anything else on here, which, in the main, sticks to the roots, ganja-puff skank to rasta-babbling hard stuff to tourist-trap what-me-worry one-drop adventurousness. 

Ziggy Recado’s trumpet-like voice makes “Ganjah Station” a lot more interesting than it might have been, while other standouts include the anti-Apartheid-tasting “Only the Strong,” Daddy Rings’ cameo on the sunny tent-revival “Thank You Jah” and a commercially minded “Oh Woman (Don’t Cry).”

By Eric Saeger

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