Natty Dread

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread

Natty Dread
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Artist: Bob Marley & the Wailers
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-06-12
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
  1. Lively Up Yourself
  2. No Woman, No Cry
  3. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
  4. Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block)
  5. So Jah Seh
  6. Natty Dread
  7. Bend Down Low
  8. Talkin' Blues
  9. Revolution
  10. Am-A-Do (Bonus Track)

Free Music Notes for Natty Dread

Free Music Review: pop-oriented reggae
Hit: 4 Stars

Not having heard any of Marley's other albums in their original sequence, I can't comment on how this stands up to "Uprising" or "Burnin," but none of the songs which haven't made it to a greatest hits compilation is especially remarkable. The studio version of "No Woman, No Cry" is jarring at first, but that's only because the live version is so good. The cut here is no less satisfying after one begins to anticipate the quicker tempo. All in all, there are no duds, but there also is never much of a crescendo of emotion or a very dramatic change of groove. In any case, it's a satisfying collection of pop-oriented reggae singles.

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Natty Dread captures Bob Marley's decisive transition from Wailers band member to auteur, his singing and writing now front and center, and the revamped band securely reined in to his defiant, Rastafarian worldview. This 1974 release mirrors the lineup's more sinewy sound, carved by Al Anderson's spidery guitar fills, Touter's telegraphic keyboard, the I-Threes' female vocal choruses and vamping horns--a potent brew that bubbles under his then most openly political songs. A position paper on the daunting ghetto realities of Jamaica's Trenchtown, the album reels off a series of enduring Marley classics and kicks off with the giddy, sexy reggae anthem, "Lively Up Yourself," with its hilarious but mysterious spoken fadeout ("What you got in dat bag, dere?"). It continues with the uplifting pep talk in "No Woman No Cry," the grim dispatches of "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" and "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)," as well as the exhortations of the title song and "Revolution." Marley's own dreadlocks were still just growing in then, but this is nonetheless fully matured, riveting reggae at its most focused, righteous, and rhythmically irresistible. --Sam Sutherland

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