Toots & the Maytals - Time Tough: The Anthology
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Artist: Toots & the MaytalsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1996-06-18
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Six And Seven Books Of Moses
- Broadway Jungle
- It's You
- Never You Change
- John And James
- 54-46, That's My Number
- Do The Reggay
- Desmond Dekker Came First
- Sweet & Dandy
- Monkey Man
- Peeping Tom
- One Eyed Enos
- She's My Scorcher
- Pressure Drop
- Pomp & Pride
- Funky Kingston
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Time Tough
- In The Dark
- Reggae Got Soul
- Rastaman
- Living In The Ghetto
- Hallelujah (Live)
- Get Up, Stand Up
- My Love Is So Strong
- Chatty, Chatty
- Gee Whiz
- Just Like That
- Careless Ethiopians
- Never Get Weary
- Spend The Weekend
- Beautiful Woman
- Bam Bam
- Spiritual Healing
- B For Butter
- Peace, Perfect Peace
- You Know
- (I've Got) Dreams To Remember
- Precious, Precious
- Hard To Handle
- Freedom Train
Free Music Notes for Time Tough: The Anthology
Free Music Review: THE Toots CD
Hit: 5 Stars
In the beginning, there was Sam Cooke. Following in that groove were Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Toots' reggae is rooted in the soul/R&B vein, and no one did it better. This first CD features his older material with more of a traditional soul sound: highlights include the seminal "Do the Reggay", the underdog themes of "Pressure Drop" and "Time Tough", and the Memphis horns sounding anthem "Reggae Got Soul". CD#2 features love songs, positive: "My Love is so Strong", sad: "Just Like That" and anger: "Chatty Chatty". Then the songs start to take on a more spiritual bend: "Careless Ethiopians", "Spiritual Healing" and the drop dead gorgeous "Peace, Perfect Peace". Not a clinker in the collection. And the sound quality of the remastering reveals The Voice better than any other Toots recordings I've heard. The excellent bands he worked with are revealed in detail; you can hear each player, whereas the original recordings tended to slur the instruments together. The variety and quality of the selected tracks make this highly listenable front to back.
Time Tough: The Anthology Poster
The 30-year career of Frederick "Toots" Hibbert and his Maytals is in many ways the story of Jamaican pop music. A ska originator who adapted early '60s soul into an original and irresistible island groove, Toots slowed ska's staccato chops and shuffle beats to create a midtempo rock-steady. As the '70s approached, Toots's music eased even more and evolved into reggae (with his 1968 single "Do the Reggay," he even named the genre). Through the '70s and '80s, as other styles appropriated reggae, Toots pulled in the opposite direction to bring funk, R&B, rock, and pop into his music. The two-disc, 41-track Time Tough: The Anthology, which extends from Toots's earliest single, 1963's "Six and Seven Books of Moses", to his 1988 album Toots in Memphis, covers all of the reggae survivor's transformations. More than Toots's lack of rastaman dreadlocks, what distinguishes him from countrymen Bob Marley and Peter Tosh is his continual embrace of American music. Throughout his career, his comfort with mainland forms worked both for and against him. On Disc One's early singles ("54-46 That's My Number," "Sweet & Dandy"), Toots's crooning and the Maytals' classic soul hooks make for first-rate ska and rock-steady. Disc Two, though, documents how, while Marley turned reggae into protest music, Toots remained largely apolitical and recorded pale versions of American hits like "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (yes, John Denver) and "Spiritual Healing" (reworking Marvin Gaye). By the '80s, his embrace of slick R&B ("Just Like That") and use of Memphis musicians made his sound at times barely recognizable as reggae. Disc One's glory, though, easily compensates for Disc Two's late-career shortcomings; Toots's rightful place in reggae royalty was secured long ago. --Roni SarigInternational Music CDs
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