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The beauty and liberated spirit of “Thee Black Boltz” is exemplified in how diverse the musicality and lyrical themes are.

Joined by a lyrical harmonica and Caton’s vocals, it’s music that almost lets the audience smell the cotton fields and country roads and smoke-filled hoodoo huts.

He added he'd discovered "at least 19 songs" predating Mr Stone's track that had similar lyrical ideas - several of which were also called All I Want For Christmas Is You.

Follow-ups like “The Marshall” and “Come Again” incorporated more spiritual Rastafarian lyrical themes, and he joined a supergroup with Shabba Ranks and Home T that scored a big hit with “Holding On.”

“Valley Song,” the greatest of the post-apartheid works, offers a lyrical meditation on the human cost of change, the losses exacted by progress.