Peter Tosh - Wanted Dread & Alive [Bonus Tracks] [Remaster]

Artist:

Tosh, Peter

UPC:

724353769321

See Also:

Wailers (The)

Description:

Personnel: Peter Tosh (vocals, arranger, guitar, keyboards, percussion);
Gwen Guthrie (vocals); Mikey "Mao" Chung; Pee-Wee (flute); Dean Fraser (alto & tenor saxophones); A. Brackenbridge, D. Madden (trumpet); Nambo (trombone);
Lou Marini, Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff (horns); Robbie Shakespeare (bass); Sly Dunbar (drums); Iziah "Stick" Thompson, Noel "Scully" Sims (percussion);
The Tamlins (background vocals).
Recorded at Dynamic Sound Studios, Kingston, Jamaica in 1981. Includes liner notes by Roger Steffens.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is part of EMI Records "Peter Tosh Remasters" series.
Personnel: Peter Tosh (vocals, background vocals); Gwen Guthrie (vocals); Dean Fraser (alto, tenor saxophone); D. Madden (trumpet); Nambo (trombone); Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff, Lou Marini (horns); Sly Dunbar (drums); The Tamlins (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Geoffrey Chung.
Liner Note Author: Roger Steffens.
Recording information: Dynamic Sound Studio, Kingston, Jamaica.
Arranger: Peter Tosh.
Not many singers can sing "I am wanted by the evil forces" without sounding paranoid, but with Peter Tosh, you believe it. By 1982, Peter Tosh had been brutalized by the Jamaican police more than once. His chief crime was speaking out against the forces of oppression in his native land. As the wanted poster on the cover indicates, WANTED DREAD OR ALIVE finds Peter Tosh in a typically combative mode.
The record begins with both guns blazing on the menacing "Coming in Hot." The mood lets up on the uncharacteristically schmaltzy "Nothing But Love," a duet with soul diva Gwen Guthrie, and on the laid-back "Reggae-Mylitis," a sort of dreadlocked cousin of "Rockin` Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu." But in general, this is dark stuff indeed. He inveighs against the wickedness of Babylon on the chilling "Cold Blood" and the crisp, powerful title track. A rock-solid backing group, including the legendary rhythm section of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, supplies sympathetic support to Tosh`s gruff, impassioned vocals. On "That`s What They Will Do," Tosh sings of friends` betrayal, eerily presaging his death at the hands of a former companion in 1987.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Coming in Hot
2. Nothing But Love
3. Reggae-Mylitis
4. Rok With Me
5. Oh Bumbo Klaat
6. Wanted Dread and Alive
7. Rastafari Is
8. Guide Me From My Friends
9. Fools Die (For Want of Wisdom)
10. Poor Man Feel It, The
11. Cold Blood
12. That`s What They Will Do
13. Rok With Me - (Alternate Long Mix, previously unreleased)
14. Nothing But Love - (long version)

Album Information

Release Date:

07/08/2002

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Reggae

Subgenre:

Roots Reggae

Label:

Capitol

Producer:

Nigel Reeve; Peter Tosh

Catalog Number:

37693

Original Release Year:

1981

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

47 : 34

Guest Artist:

Robbie Shakespeare; Sly Dunbar; Jon Faddis; Gwen Guthrie; Lew Soloff

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