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The man known as Burning Spear was born Winston Rodney at St Anns Bay, Jamaica in 1948 and his unusual name for the duo he formed in the late 1960s comes from Jomo Kenyatta, the Mau Mau leader who eventually became the president of Kenya his Christian name means Burning Spear in English. Man in the Hills was the follow-up to the seminal Marcus Garvey, produced by Jack Ruby, and is a simple and unadorned album with songs that reminisce about Spears childhood in St. Annes Bay, Jamaica. After Marcus Garvey, Spears fame had grown considerably, and he was a star in Jamaica and cult sensation in the United Kingdom. Man in the Hills was a much quieter and more restrained album than its predecessor, and was more astral and dreamlike than militant and radical, though songs like Is It Good and No More War continued to address social issues.