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Peter Tosh: Peter Be Good Tonight!

Richard Grabel, Creem, November 1983

NEW YORK — Peter Tosh's new album Mama Africa is the strongest he's made in years. Aside from its clever reggae reworking of 'Johnny B. Goode', which has garnered Tosh airplay on some FM rock stations and MTV, it has a general level of sophisticated rootsiness and lyrical toughness that Tosh's last few LPs missed.

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