Bob Marley - Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers — Catch A Fire

Analogue Productions Ultra Tape reel-to-reel reissue!

15 ips, ¼-inch 2-track (½ track) analog tape copy

Sourced from original master tapes

Transferred using ATR-modified Ampex Tape Machine with flux magnetic heads

Custom slipcase cover — highest quality tape reissue!

Catch A Fire is the Wailers' fifth studio album and their major label debut for Island Records — becoming an international success after its release in 1973. 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.

Although Marley may have been the main voice, every member of the Wailers made valuable contributions and they were never more united in their vision and sound.

Catch A Fire did for reggae what Please Please Me, the first Beatles album, had done for pop and rock exactly a decade earlier. An album of revolutionary genius, which combined perfect timing with lasting cultural significance, Catch A Fire laid a foundation stone for the career of the world's first and indeed only reggae superstar and established a bridgehead between the deep roots music of Jamaica and the commercial pop mainstream of the First World. Its release marked the moment that reggae truly did begin to "catch fire" on the international stage.

The result was an album with a groove that was languid, soulful, and sun-drenched, yet lean and taut as a coiled spring. The bass and drum parts — supplied by Aston "Family Man" Barrett and his younger brother Carlton Barrett, respectively — were welded together by the distinctive staccato scratch-strokes of Marley's rhythm guitar. The irresistible rhythmic tug which this produced was a revelation to the great majority of listeners discovering the band for the first time.

Here, with our Ultra Tape 15 ips 1/4-inch analog tape edition, Catch A Fire sounds its purest and most vital — offering a wider frequency range and dynamic range, plus exceptional sound quality compared to standard reissue formats.

 

 

Reel 1

1. Concrete Jungle

2. Slave Driver

3. 400 Years

4. Stop That Train

5. Baby We've Got A Date (Rock It Baby)

Reel 2

1. Stir It Up

2. Kinky Reggae

3. No More Trouble

4. Midnight Ravers

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