Artist Lee "Scratch" Perry
As inventive and iconoclastic as any genius hiding out in music history, Lee “Scratch” Perry figures into pretty much every development within reggae music from the time he started working professionally in the late ’60s. He’s written for and produced giants (Bob Marley, The Congos), mixed down some of the heaviest dub ever heard, and generally done more with limited tape-recording equipment than really makes sense. Perry, now in his 70s, last came current with the one-two-three punch of 2008’s dancehall-inflected Repentance, the nostalgic The Mighty Upsetter, which returned him to his dub roots and reunited him with producer Adrian Sherwood, and Scratch Came, Scratch Saw, Scratch Conquered, which features guest work from Keith Richards and George Clinton.
Updated 08/18/2009
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