PRINCE BUSTER WITH THE PRINCE BUSTER ALL STARS

Hard Man Fe Dead (Prince Buster/ Soulsville Center/Blue Beat, 1963)

Hard Man Fe Dead is the quintessential example of ska defiance: no matter how his enemies try to strike him down, Buster will emerge victorious, jumping up like Lazarus at his own funeral before the burial. Raymond Harper’s trumpet solo and a falsetto backing chorus completes the mournful yet triumphant picture.