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Marley: Collector's Edition (2DVD)
by Doug Collette
Bob Marley Marley: 2 DVD Collector's Edition Tuff Gong Worldwide 2025 There have been other works devoted to Bob Marley ostensibly as comprehensive as Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald's picturesque historical film Marley. But the addition of this absorbing piece to a list including, but hardly limited to, Timothy White's print biography Catch A Fire (Elm Tree Books, 1983) and the 2024 biopic Bob Marley: One Love (Paramount Pictures, 2024), only clarifies the depth and ...
Continue ReadingCatch A Fire: 50th Anniversary Edition (3 CD)
by Doug Collette
Bob Marley and the Wailers' Catch A Fire 50th Anniversary Edition is a logical extension of the 2001 Deluxe Edition of the title. Whereas that latter double-CD package included this seminal reggae record in both its original and overdubbed form, this latest exhumation from the vault includes the studio album as originally released, the complete concert of the band 'Live at the Paris Theatre in London' (previously only ever bootlegged) and a third compact disc of alternate, extended and instrumental ...
Continue ReadingBob Marley and the Wailers: The Capitol Session '73
by Doug Collette
Bob Marley and the Wailers The Capitol Session '73 Mercury Studios 2021 Talk about buried treasure indeed! Bob Marley and The Wailers The Capitol Session '73 would not exist in this CD/DVD package (or it's other configurations) if not for a series of deceptively fortuitous events that occurred nearly a half-century ago. As described by author John Masouri in his comprehensive liner notes, it all sounds implausible--especially considering some of the names involved--except that it's ...
Continue ReadingKaya 40
by Nenad Georgievski
In recent years there hasn't been a shortage of reissues of various artists as every five years there is some sort of anniversary which is a plausible reason for issuing an avalanche of remastered editions with various bonus materials in different formats. And it's amazing that music from past decades and long gone eras still manages to remind people of its timeless qualities. One of those artists whose music and shadow loom larger with the years is singer and reggae ...
Continue ReadingBob Marley: Uprising Live!
by Doug Collette
Bob Marley Uprising Live! Eagle Vision 2014 Given Bob Marley's status as a cultural icon, it only makes sense that it's impossible not to engage in the truisms of 'what if' and/or 'if only' watching Uprising Live! By the time of his untimely death from cancer in May of 1981, the Jamaican musician had achieved almost as much politically as artistically in his relatively short career span. Marley was already ill and under ...
Continue ReadingBob Marley & The Wailers: Kaya Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
It's telling that the photos of Bob Marley adorning the first half of the comprehensive booklet with this 'Deluxe Edition' of Kaya show the late third-world icon beaming and smiling right and left, much as he does on the front cover. In contrast, the photos interspersed with song lyrics and recording detail in the latter half of the insert display an intense man unafraid to address serious issues, the likes of which he mainly avoided, and was thus criticized for, ...
Continue ReadingBob Marley and The Wailers: Live Forever
by Doug Collette
Like Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley is one of those rare musical figures who achieved mythic status during his own lifetime. The Jamaican reggae master's legacy has grown posthumously-- due, in large measure, to the astute archiving of his recordings. Live Forever documents his final performance. At the time of this September, 1980 show at Pittsburgh's Stanley Theatre, Marley was less than a year from his death due to cancer, so the invocation of his Rastafarian ...
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