The Wailers - Burnin'

Titel

1. Get Up, Stand Up
2. Hallelujah Time
3. I Shot The Sheriff
4. Burnin' And Lootin'
5. Put It On
6. Small Axe
7. Pass It On
8. Duppy Conqueror
9. One Foundation
10. Rasta Man Chant

When Bob Marley died, he was one of the world’s first global superstars – famous and celebrated from Europe to Africa to America. Some saw him not merely as a reggae singer, but as a folk hero, a kind of freedom fighter. To this day, his legacy is greater than the music he made, wrote Pitchfork. In the 21st century, Bob Marley is a global cultural icon and the first Jamaican to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “Burnin’” is the sixth album by The Wailers, released in October 1973. All three members of the band – Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer – jointly wrote and produced the album, recording it in Jamaica. It was the last album by The Wailers in this magnificent line-up: Tosh and Bunny subsequently left the band to pursue their solo careers, and the era of “Bob Marley & The Wailers” was yet to begin. In 2003, the album ranked number 319 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

“Burnin’” ultimately propelled The Wailers to international fame, led by the classics “I Shot The Sheriff” (later a U.S. number-one hit for Eric Clapton) and the timeless anthem “Get Up, Stand Up”, adopted by civil rights activists worldwide. In many ways, “Burnin’” summarized the band’s development up to that point. Filled with revolutionary passion and intensity, the album also represents the final heroic essence of a line-up that had accompanied the young Wailers, Tosh and Marley, on their journey from the streets of Trenchtown to the brink of global fame. Although regarded as a “new” band in the UK and America, The Wailers had been recording together since 1963 and had built an extensive repertoire that remained largely unknown outside Jamaica. Several tracks on “Burnin’” were re-recordings of previously released songs. “Put It On,” a gentle spiritual groove featuring the refrain “Lord I Thank You,” had been released as a single on the Studio One label in Jamaica in 1965 and was among the first songs to popularize the term “toasting” to describe the lyrical vocal style of dancehall DJs. Likewise, “Duppy Conqueror” and “Small Axe” were new recordings of long-standing favorites in The Wailers’ history.

Analogue Productions now honors this masterful album with a sonically outstanding hybrid SACD, based on Ryan K. Smith’s remastering of the original master tapes at Sterling Sound, delivering an unprecedented level of sound quality for this reggae classic.