Natty Dread +1 - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Natty Dread is The Wailer's third album, after breaking through into the mainstream, and the first album recorded with the I-Threes, a female vocal trio that included Bob's wife, Rita Marley, along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt. The album's style is somewhere in between the commercially produced Catch a Fire and the minimal roots rock of Burnin'. The album contains the original, and now following the success of Legend lesser known, version of No Woman no Cry. Them Belly Full contains the Wailers trademark anger at the system and poverty that exsisits on the streets of Kingston. Rebel Music talks of the time Bob Marley was stopped by a police roadblock at 3am ...  Read the complete review

For many people Bob Marley is reggae, this is quite understandable - thanks to shrewd label decisions he always appealed to rock audiences - though this state of affairs can lead to a narrow view of Marley's close to twenty years in music. It was Marleys' talent and charisma that kept him at the top, but his apprenticeship served under a host of influences and featuring a variety of collaborations that rounded and grounded is sound. Pride of place is often given to records such as Burnin' and Catch a Fire, involving Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, but this should not be to the detriment of recordings such as 1975's Natty dread. Whilst this album features a ...  Read the complete review

I am again amazed at the lack of opinion on this album. I'm a little new to this - but no opinions on Natty Dread?! Has the world gone mad? Well, fear not for your sanity for I am here to write the wrongs (excuse the pun) and give you a little taste of an album that if you don't own, you need to be deaf or dead. Lively Up Yourself is one of those songs that you will probably have heard over and over again without really listening to. It proudly exhibits one of the most amazing attributes of Bob Marley - his ability to use a fairly constrained musical form (reggae usually consists of four or five off-beat organ chords with some trumpets, bass and vocals) ...  Read the complete review