Showing posts with label Bob Marley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Marley. Show all posts

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Bob Marley and The Wailers-Kaya (1978)

Bob Marley's tenth album is the most lighthearted and relaxed work of his entire career, with themes far removed from the social, racial, and political issues he had addressed in his previous albums. In this new release, Bob Marley, along with his inseparable band The Wailers, showcases his most amiable and laid-back side with a series of reggae standards such as the melodic "Is This Love", and the pleasant "Running Away", "Kaya", "Sun Is Shining", "Satisfy My Soul", and "She's Gone". However, it's also true that the brilliant moments of his earlier work are practically absent from this new release, even though it continued to maintain a high level of popularity. With three platinum and gold records, and sales that now exceed two million copies, it became his greatest commercial achievement and one of the high points in the career of the celebrated and iconic Bob Marley.

Saturday, September 12, 2020

Bob Marley and The Wailers-Live! (1975)

In the mid-70s, Bob Marley still did not have the fame that he would later acquire worldwide, with only one album published with his solo signature "Natty Dread" and another six with The Wailers, he appeared in London at the Lyceum supporting the mentioned "Natty Dread" on July 18-19, 1975.
Six months later the album "Live!" with a selection of songs belonging to those two nights and which, contrary to the usual at that time, was not released as a double album, but as a single with just seven songs.
On those two nights Bob Marley and The Wailers offered two fantastic performances with a band in good shape and a repertoire full of great songs such as the initial and energetic "Trenchtown Rock", the extensive and incendiary "Get Up, Stand Up" or the wonderful "No Woman, No Cry".
"Live" is an explosive live show, with a totally devoted audience, explosive guitars, contagious choirs and a feeling of revolution on the surface.
From here and as a consequence of the success of those performances and the great reception that this album had, Island Records would reissue with great success the albums "Catch a Fire" and "Burnin´" by The Wailers worldwide.

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Bob Marley & The Wailers-Babylon By Bus (1978)

In 1978 Bob Marley and The Wailers had achieved great success with his album "Kaya", and on his subsequent tour several concerts were recorded from which the material for this live double entitled "Babylon By Bus" was extracted, which was published at the end of 1978.
With overwhelming performance and sound, this live contains a selection of its best repertoire, performed in a more aggressive and more rock, something that ultimately would benefit and would like rock fans.
Very psychedelic guitars and basses for what was usually used for traditional reggae, with much more importance to improvised blues keyboards achieved an excellent result.
From the initial "Positive Vibrations" to the final climax with "Jammin", through classics such as "Stir it Up", "Concrete Jungle", "Is This Love" or "Exodus", make this magnificent live show a gem of the reggae and rock in general.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Bob Marley And The Wailers-Natty Dread (1974)

Although Bob Marley's previous album, "Burnin' ", was released internationally in England and the United States, this would be the first to be distributed globally, introducing him and his band, The Wailers, to the world. That year, Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston, two of the original members of The Wailers, had left the group due to the pressures of constant touring and their growing popularity. With a reformed lineup featuring guitarist Al Anderson, bassist Aston Barrett, and organist Jean Roussel, Bob Marley undertook the recording of this seventh album, which would achieve unprecedented success in the Jamaican musician's career up to that point. Somewhat softening the political message of his earlier works, Bob Marley approached this project with a profound spiritual and emotional intensity. The powerful rhythm section of drummer Carlton Barrett and his brother, bassist Aston Barrett, along with Anderson's riffs and Marley's subtle guitar work and soulful, African-tinged vocals, drive an album brimming with African-American sounds adorned with reggae rhythms. "Takin' Blues", "Them Belly Full", and "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)" are clearly geared toward that antisocial message, while the rebellious "Lively Up Yourself" and the glorious "No Woman No Cry" complete one of Bob Marley and The Wailers' finest albums.