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1. Concrete Jungle
2. Slave Driver
3. 400 Years
4. Stop That Train
5. Baby We've Got A Date (Rock It Baby)
6. Stir It Up
7. Kinky Reggae
8. No More Trouble
9. Midnight Ravers
When Bob Marley died, he was one of the world’s first global superstars – famous and celebrated from Europe to Africa and 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 created, 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. “Catch A Fire” is the fifth studio album by The Wailers and their major-label debut for Island Records. Released in 1973, the album marked the Jamaican band’s international breakthrough and achieved triple gold status worldwide.
The album features nine tracks, two of which were written and composed by Peter Tosh. The remaining seven were written by Bob Marley. Although Bunny Wailer is not credited as a songwriter, the group’s writing style was a collective process. While Marley was the lead vocalist, every member of The Wailers made a valuable contribution, and never were they more united in vision and sound than during this period. “Catch A Fire” was to reggae what “Please Please Me,” The Beatles’ debut album, had been to pop and rock music exactly a decade earlier. As a revolutionary masterpiece combining perfect timing with enduring cultural significance, “Catch A Fire” laid the foundation for the career of the world’s first and only reggae superstar and built a bridge between Jamaica’s deeply rooted musical traditions and the commercial pop mainstream of the Western world. Its release marked the moment when reggae truly “caught fire” on the international stage. “Catch A Fire” is an album with a groove that is relaxed, soulful and sun-drenched, yet lean and taut like a coiled spring. The bass and drum parts – played by Aston “Family Man” Barrett and his younger brother Carlton Barrett – were fused together by Marley’s distinctive staccato scratch strokes on rhythm guitar. The irresistible rhythmic pull that results remains a revelation even for listeners discovering the band for the first time.
Analogue Productions now honors this masterful album with a sonically outstanding hybrid SACD, based on Ryan K. Smith’s remastering of the original tapes at Sterling Sound, delivering an unprecedented level of audio quality for this reggae classic.
