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THE WAILERS’ “CATCH A FIRE” TOPS MOJO MAGAZINE’S TOP 50 ALBUM LIST!

THE WAILERS’ “CATCH A FIRE” TOPS MOJO MAGAZINE’S TOP 50 ALBUM LIST!

   No.3 The Harder They Come— CATCH A Fire, the sensational 1973 album by The Wailers, has been chosen best reggae album by Britain’s influential MOJO Magazine. It topped a list of 50 albums, many of which helped introduce Jamaican popular culture to an international audience. Catch A Fire was The Wailers’ (Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny ‘Wailer’ Livingston) first album for Chris Blackwell’s Island Records. It contained the title song, Concrete Jungle, Slave Driver and 400 Years. … Read entire article »

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STEVE BARROW – BRITISH MUSICOLOGIST, NEXT BOOK IS ON JAMAICAN ALBUM JACKETS!

STEVE BARROW – BRITISH MUSICOLOGIST, NEXT BOOK IS ON JAMAICAN ALBUM JACKETS!

  By Howard Campbell— BRITISH musicologist Steve Barrow has covered just about every angle of Jamaican popular music since the early 1970s. For his latest project, he zoomed in on an often overlooked aspect. Barrow’s book on album covers is expected to be released by London’s Soul Jazz Limited late this year. It traces jackets by Jamaican artists going back to the mento era of the 1950s to the present. BARROW… writes book on jackets by Jamaican artists going … Read entire article »

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