Judy Mowatt: Black Woman (Ashandan pre-release).

JUDY MOWATT, apart from being an I-Three (the women who sing behind Marley), is a respected songstress and label-owner down in Jamaica. Her solo album demonstrates that she can sing as sweet and powerful and passionate as Aretha, that musically she harks back to Sixties soul, and tends towards dated arrangements. The spiritual strength of Black Woman is important for anyone who, like me, tends to think of Rasta women as having not that many more advantages than veiled women in Iran; it's a fact, some people like it that way.