Peter Tosh - Equal Rights [6/21]

Artist:

Tosh, Peter

UPC:

886977469121

See Also:

Wailers (The)

Description:

Personnel: Peter Tosh (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Al Anderson, Abdul Wali, Karl Pitterson (guitar); Dirty Harry (tenor saxophone); Bobby Ellis (trumpet); Harold Butler (Clavinet); Earl Lindo, Tyrone Downie (keyboards); Robbie Shakespeare (bass); Sly Dunbar, Carlie Barrett (drums); Skully (percussion); Bunny Wailer (background vocals)
Producer: Peter Tosh.
Reissue producer: Bruce Dickinson.
Includes liner notes by Roger Steffens.
Digitally remastered by Chris Athens (Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
Personnel: Peter Tosh (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Abdul Wali, Al Anderson, Karl Pitterson (guitar); Dirty Harry (tenor saxophone); Bobby Ellis (trumpet); Harold Butler (Clavinet); Earl Lindo, Tyrone Downie (keyboards); Carlie Barrett, Sly Dunbar (drums); Bunny Wailer (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: Herbie Miller.
Photographers: Kate Simon ; Susan Finkelstein; Avrom Robin; Adrian Boot; Lee Jaffe.
Peter Tosh served as a counterpoint to the worldwide success of his former partner Bob Marley. Their relationship is often compared to that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with Tosh playing the role of the cynical Lennon to Marley`s love-song-oriented McCartney. The analogy worked loosely at best, as both musicians simply followed different muses after the 1974 break-up of the original Wailers. Tosh`s recorded output had as much cross-over appeal as Marley`s more commercial work, culminating in a duet with Mick Jagger on the song "Walk And Don`t Look Back." But Tosh always had the more militant stance which resulted in many beatings and arrests leading up to his murder in 1987.
Tosh`s 1977 album, EQUAL RIGHTS, is a peak in his career. It begins with a new version of "Get Up, Stand Up," one of Marley`s signature songs (co-written by Tosh). Tosh`s version is more sinewy than Marley`s, with biting guitar lines snaking throughout. Likewise, "Stepping Razor" struts with a dangerous swagger, "African" plays like a mirror to Marley`s pan-Africanism, and "Apartheid" shows that Tosh is not afraid to indict any enemy, no matter how large. But the most chilling song is the title track, where Tosh sings, "Everyone is crying out for peace/None is crying out for justice," a self-assured call-to-arms as pertinent today as it was eighteen years ago. EQUAL RIGHTS represents Tosh to a tee--no-nonsense, gritty, political reggae with some of the most fully realized and best produced tracks this side of Tuff Gong.

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Get Up, Stand Up
2. Downpressor Man
3. I Am That I Am
4. Stepping Razor
5. Equal Rights
6. African
7. Jah Guide
8. Apartheid
9. 400 Years [Outtake] - (previously unreleased, take)
10. Hammer [Extended Version] [Outtake] - (previously unreleased, take)
11. Jah Man Inna Jamdung [Outtake] - (previously unreleased, take)
12. Vampire [Outtake] - (previously unreleased, take)
13. Babylon Queendom [Outtake] - (previously unreleased, take)
14. You Can`t Blame the Youth [Outtake] - (previously unreleased, take)
15. Mark of the Beast [Outtake] - (previously unreleased, take)

DISC 2:

1. Get Up, Stand Up [Alternate Version] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
2. Dub-Presser Man [Dub Version] - (previously unreleased)
3. I Am That I Am [ShaJahShoka Dub Plate] - (remix, previously unreleased)
4. Heavy Razor [ShaJahShoka Dub Plate] - (remix, previously unreleased)
5. Equal Rights [Extended Version] - (previously unreleased)
6. African [London Sound System Dub Plate] - (remix, previously unreleased)
7. Jah Guide [Dub Plate] - (remix, previously unreleased)
8. (Fight) Apartheid [Alternate Version] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
9. Vampire [Demo] - (previously unreleased)
10. Jah Man Inna Jamdung [Demo] - (previously unreleased)
11. Hammer [ShaJahShoka Dub Plate] - (remix, previously unreleased)
12. Blame the Yout [Dub Version] - (previously unreleased)
13. Babylon Queendom [Dub Version] - (previously unreleased)
14. Vampires [Dub Version] - (previously unreleased)
15. Get Up, Stand Up [Extended/Alternate Version] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)

Album Information

Release Date:

06/21/2011

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Reggae

Subgenre:

Roots Reggae

Label:

Columbia (USA)

Catalog Number:

88697 74691

Original Release Year:

1977

# of Discs:

2

Studio/Live:

Mixed

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

145 : 45

Guest Artist:

Robbie Shakespeare; Bunny Wailer; Sly Dunbar

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