Catch a Fire

Description

Bob Marley and The Wailers Catch A Fire
Hybrid Stereo SACD release from Analogue Productions
Mastered Direct To DSD by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original master tape
Plays in all CD and SACD players

Catch A Fire is the Wailers fifth studio album and their major label debut for Island Records becoming an international success after its release in 1973. The album has nine songs, two of which were written and composed by Peter Tosh; the remaining seven were by Bob Marley. While Bunny Wailer is not credited as a writer, the groups writing style was a collective process.

Although Marley may have been the main voice, every member of the Wailers made valuable contributions and they were never more united in their vision and sound.

Catch A Fire did for reggae what Please Please Me, the first Beatles album, had done for pop and rock exactly a decade earlier. An album of revolutionary genius, which combined perfect timing with lasting cultural significance, Catch A Fire laid a foundation stone for the career of the worlds first and indeed only reggae superstar and established a bridgehead between the deep roots music of Jamaica and the commercial pop mainstream of the First World. Its release marked the moment that reggae truly did begin to catch fire on the international stage.

The result was an album with a groove that was languid, soulful, and sun-drenched, yet lean and taut as a coiled spring. The bass and drum parts supplied by Aston Family Man Barrett and his younger brother Carlton Barrett, respectively were welded together by the distinctive staccato scratch-strokes of Marleys rhythm guitar. The irresistible rhythmic tug which this produced was a revelation to the great majority of listeners discovering the band for the first time.

Catch A Fire now a landmark production on Analogue Productions Hybrid Stereo SACD!