Catch a Fire

Description

In correlation withBob Marleys70th birthday year-long celebration (2015) and the release of the expansiveComplete Island Recordingsvinyl box, the11 LP’s from the set will also be broken out and released individually on 180-gram vinylbeginning in September 2015. Apart from the actual disc labels which will feature more recently reissued artwork, the LP’s willfaithfully replicate the original album pressings.
The individual issues encompass all nineBob Marley & The Wailersstudio albums recorded forIsland Recordsincluding some of their most celebrated releases like 1972 label debutCatch A Fire, 1976 US breakthroughRastaman Vibrationand the two live albumsLive!(1975) andBabylon By Bus(1978). Also available:Burnin(1973),Natty Dread(1974),Exodus(1977),Kaya(1978),Survival(1979),Uprising(1980) andConfrontation(1983).
In 1971, Marley founded his own Tuff Gong label and was signed toIsland Recordsby its leader Chris Blackwell, who had licensed some of his bands previous releases and offered Marley a deal to record their debut album.Catch A Firewas their first album released outside Jamaica, signaled the emergence of reggaes patron saint and immediately earned global acclaim, even garnering the group its first tour of the U.S. Reggaes first true album, rather than a collection of singles,Catch A Fireincludes such well-known tracks as Stir It Up, Concrete Jungle and Slave Driver – all of them fiery, politically charged, and uncompromising.1. Stop That Train2. Kinky Reggae3. Stir It Up4. Concrete Jungle5. Slave Driver6. 400 Years7. Baby We’ve Got A Date (Rock It Baby)8. No More Trouble9. Midnight Ravers