# Dreadlocks Dread

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Dread Locks Dread
| type       = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist     = [Big Youth](/source/Big_Youth)
| cover      = DreadlockDread Cover.JPG
| alt        =
| released   = 1975
| recorded   = 1975
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Reggae](/source/Reggae)
| length     = 33:33
| label      = Klik<ref name="auto">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARrDQKqFo7AC&q=Dreadlocks+Dread+big+youth+1975&pg=PA36|title=Reggae & Caribbean Music|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=July 27, 2002|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306557|via=Google Books}}</ref>
| producer   = Tony Robinson<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.furious.com/perfect/bigyouth.html|title=Big Youth|website=www.furious.com}}</ref>
| prev_title = [Reggae Phenomenon](/source/Reggae_Phenomenon)
| prev_year  = 1975
| next_title = [Natty Cultural Dread](/source/Natty_Cultural_Dread)
| next_year  = 1976
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r103352|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review]</ref>
|rev2 = ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Seventies Music''
|rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Seventies Music |date=1997 |publisher=Virgin Books |page=45}}</ref>
}}

'''''Dread Locks Dread''''' is an album by the [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica)n [deejay](/source/Deejay_(Jamaican)) [Big Youth](/source/Big_Youth), released in 1975.<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Big Youth |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/big-youth/ |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=27 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto"/>

==Critical reception==
''[Trouser Press](/source/Trouser_Press)'' wrote that "the record is widely considered his best."<ref name=TP/>

==Track listing==
<small>All tracks by [Big Youth](/source/Big_Youth) & Tony Robinson</small>
# "Train to Rhodesia" – 3:33 
# "House of Dread Locks" – 3:17
# "Lightning Flash (Weak Heart Drop)" – 3:21
# "Natty Dread She Want" – 3:18
# "Some Like It Dread" – 3:05
# "Marcus Garvey Dread" – 3:03
# "Big Youth Special" – 2:29
# "Dread Organ" – 3:02
# "Black Man Message" – 2:53
# "Moving On" – 3:07
# "You Don't Care" – 2:36

==Personnel==
*Skin, Flesh & Bones – backing band
*Big Youth – vocals
*Casey Cashman – art direction
*Trevor Herman – liner notes
*Cooke Key – sleeve art
*[Dennis Morris](/source/Dennis_Morris_(photographer)) – photography
*Dave Turner – mastering

==Recording information==
* Recording : Randy's, Kingston, Jamaica & Harry J, Kingston, Jamaica
* Mixing : Joe Gibbs 
* Engineer : [Errol Thompson](/source/Errol_Thompson_(audio_engineer))
* Arranger : Tony Robinson

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
{{Big Youth}}
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Category:1975 albums
Category:Big Youth albums

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