NO CHAINS
AROUND MY FEET
BUT I'M NOT FREE
I KNOW I'M BOUND HERE
IN CAPTIVITY
Catch a Fire
is the fifth
studio album
by the reggae band
(aka Bob Marley and the Wailers),
released in
April 1973.
It was their
first album
released by
Island Records.
After finishing a
UK tour with
Johnny Nash,
they had started
laying down tracks
for JAD Records
when a disputed
CBS contract with
Danny Sims
created tensions.
The band did not have
enough money to
return to Jamaica,
so their road manager
Brent Clarke
approached producer
Chris Blackwell,
who agreed to advance
The Wailers
money for an album.
They used this money
to pay their fares back home,
where they completed
the recordings
that constitute
Catch a Fire.
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 group's writing style
was a collective process.
For the immediate
follow-up album,
Burnin',
also released in 1973,
he contributed
four songs.
After Marley returned
with the tapes to London,
Blackwell reworked
the tracks
at Island Studios,
with contributions by
Muscle Shoals session musician
Wayne Perkins,
who played guitar
on three overdubbed tracks.
The album had a
limited original release
under the name
The Wailers
in a sleeve depicting a
Zippo lighter,
designed by graphic artists
Rod Dyer
and
Bob Weiner;
subsequent releases
had an alternative cover
designed by
John Bonis,
featuring an
Esther Anderson portrait of
Marley smoking a
"spliff",
and crediting the band as
Bob Marley and the Wailers
.The Catch a Fire Tour,
which covered
England and
the United States,
helped generate
international interest
in the band.
Catch a Fire
peaked at number 171
on the
Billboard 200
and number 51
on the
Billboard Black Albums charts.
Critical acclaim
has included the album
being listed at number 126
on
Rolling Stone's
500 Greatest Albums
of All Time,
second only to
Legend
among five
Bob Marley albums
on the list.
It is regarded as one
of the top reggae albums
of all time
The group title
Bob Marley and the Wailers
being used on
Bob Marley solo albums
has created a lot of
marketing and identity confusion
for
The Wailers' catalog.
This follows the confusion
generated by
their company
Tuff Gong Records
(registered in 1973)
and the similarly-named
Tuff Gong International
registered by
the Bob Marley Estate
in 1991;
this resulted in the 1999
Tuff Gong Settlement Agreement,
which sought to separate
the group's catalog
from Bob Marley's solo catalog.
The dual releases of
Catch a Fire
under both group names
is where this
marketing confusion began
TRACKLIST
CD 1
(The Definitive Remastered Edition 2001)
Concrete Jungle
Slave Driver
400 Years
Stop That Train
Baby We've Got A Date
(Rock It Baby)
Stir It Up
Kinky Reggae
No More Trouble
Midnight Ravers
BONUS
High Tide Or Low Tide [*]
All Day All Night [*]
Stir It Up
(Single Version) [*]
No Woman, No Cry [*]
Could You Be Loved [*]
Redemption Song [*]
CD 2
(The Unreleased Original Jamaican Version)
Concrete Jungle
( Jamaican Version)
Stir It Up
( Jamaican Version)
High Tide or Low Tide
( Jamaican Version)
Stop That Train
( Jamaican Version)
400 Years
( Jamaican Version)
Baby We've Got a Date
( Jamaican Version)
Midnight Ravers
( Jamaican Version)
All Day All Night
( Jamaican Version)
Slave Driver
( Jamaican Version)
Kinky Reggae
( Jamaican Version)
No More Trouble
( Jamaican Version)
Is This Love?
(Isolated Vocals with Harmonies) [*]
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