Album Info
| Artist: | Bob Marley And The Wailers |
| Album: | Catch A Fire |
| Released: | Worldwide, 2023 |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Original Album | |
| A1 | Concrete Jungle | |
| A2 | Slave Driver | |
| A3 | 400 Years | |
| A4 | Stop That train | |
| A5 | Baby We've Got A Date (Rock It Baby) | |
| B1 | Stir It Up | |
| B2 | Kinky Reggae | |
| B3 | No More trouble | |
| B4 | Midnight Ravers | |
| 2 | Paris Theatre London 24th May 1973 | |
| C1 | Rastaman Chant (Live) | |
| C2 | Slave Driver (Live) | |
| C3 | Stop That train (LIve) | |
| C4 | No More trouble (Live) | |
| C5 | 400 Years (Live) | |
| C6 | Midnight Ravers (Live) | |
| D1 | Stir It Up (Live) | |
| D2 | Concrete Jungle (Live) | |
| D3 | Get Up, Stand Up (Live) | |
| D4 | Kinky Reggae (Live) | |
| 3 | Sessions | |
| E1 | Slave Driver (Jamaican Extended) | |
| E2 | 400 Years (Jamaican Extended) | |
| E3 | High Tide Or Low Tide (Jamaican Alternate) | |
| E4 | Stir It Up (Jamaican Alternate) | |
| F1 | No More trouble (Jamaican Instrumental) | |
| F2 | Stir It Up (Jamaican Extra Organ) | |
| F3 | No More trouble (Jamaican Extended) | |
| F4 | Stop That train (Working Mono) | |
| 4 | Live At The Sundown Theatre Edmonton Uk, May 1973 | |
| G1 | Slave Driver (Live) | |
| G2 | Get Up, Stand Up (Live) | |
| G3 | Stop That train (Live) |
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Description
3LP + 12'' Black Vinyl - Limited 50th Anniversary Edition. Side B of the 12'' Disc features an etching of the Zippo lighter.
Catch A Fire, Bob Marley And The Wailers seminal first release on Island Records, universally regarded as the album which put reggae music on the global stage, is being re-issued, via Universal Music Recordings on November 3 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of its original release in 1973.
Catch A Fire is the fifth studio album by Bob Marley and the Wailers and was the first to be released by Island Records UK. The album originally had a limited release and was credited to The Wailers. Housed in a memorable sleeve, in the shape of a Zippo lighter designed by graphic artists Rod Dyer and Bob Weiner, Catch A Fire’s future versions would feature the classic portrait of Marley smoking a “spliff”, taken by Esther Anderson.
From then on, the artist credit was Bob Marley and The Wailers. After touring and recording in the UK with Johnny Nash, Nash’s departure to the United States left the Wailers without enough money to return home. They approached Island founder and producer Chris Blackwell, who advanced them the money for an album and paid their fares back to Jamaica, where they recorded Catch a Fire. The album features nine songs, two of which were written by Peter Tosh and the rest by Bob Marley. After Marley’s return to London to present the tapes to Blackwell, the producer reworked the tracks with contributions by Muscle Shoals session musician Wayne Perkins, who played guitar on two overdubbed tracks.
Marking the beginning of the anniversary celebrations will be the unearthing of the “Slave Driver” performance from the Edmonton show in 1973, available on Marley’s official YouTube page. Fans can enjoy an ensemble of videos over the next few months to mark the release of the 50th anniversary editions in November.
Catch A Fire will be reissued on two special formats; a 3 x Vinyl LP + 12” set, a 3 CD set, as well as digitally across all platforms. LP1/CD1 features the full final studio recording, LP2/ CD2 is the 10-song live album, “Live From The Paris Theatre London”, while LP3/CD3, entitled Sessions, features alternative, extended and instrumental Jamaican versions of the original album tracks. The additional 12”, available with the vinyl offering, and also included on CD3, features 3 classic tracks, “Slave Driver,” “Get Up, Stand Up” and “Stop That Train,” recorded live at the Wailer’s legendary performance at the Sundown Theatre in the village of Edmonton, North London. These historic recordings have only previously been available as a bootleg. The reverse side of the 12” has an etched image of the iconic Zippo lighter illustration.
Both LP & CD packages will include a book comprised of classic images of Marley, from photo shoots with long time collaborators Adrian Boot, Arthur Gorson – who shot images of Bob over two weeks in Jamaica – Dennis Morris, & Neville Garrick. The packages will also include press clippings from the era while brand new sleeve notes have been written by renowned music journalist and author, Chris Salewicz. The formats will utilize both iconic sleeve designs, the original famous Zippo lighter illustration & the later version with Bob smoking a spliff.
The album has received enormous critical acclaim, including being listed on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the second highest placement of the five Bob Marley albums on the list, after the best-selling posthumous compilation album, Legend. It is also rightly regarded as one of the greatest, most important and influential albums, across all genres, of all time.
The 3LP+12” vinyl package contains:
LP1 – The studio album
LP2 – Live at The Paris Theatre London (previously only ever bootlegged)
LP 3 – Alt, extended and instrumental Jamaican versions of Slave Driver, 400 Years, No More Trouble and Stop That Train
12” – 3 tracks live from the Sundown Theatre in Edmonton, North London. With an etched image on the reverse.