Lee (Scratch) Perry is still happy to be making music

I expected Lee (Scratch) Perry to be a little crazy. But it surprised me that he was also kind of sane, or at least able to keep up his end of a conversation – a conversation that touched on demons, sinners, vibrations good and bad, magic and, occasionally, music.

The pioneering dub-reggae producer has had a loose relationship with reality since before his infamous Black Ark backyard studio burned to the ground in 1983 (in a fire he claims to have set himself). That eccentricity drove him to create some of the most adventurous music in the history of Jamaican music, through the late ’60s and ’70s.

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