“Soon I’ll be 70,” Johnson recalls thinking, explaining Time Come’s genesis. “Next thing you know I’ll be dead.” So he pondered a posthumous selection of record and film reviews, essays and profiles ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson has garnered serious respect among reggae aficionados both as a stirringly political poet (“Inglan is a Bitch” stands as an excellent chronicle of a Jamaican immigrant in Ol’ ...