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Previously Unreleased Live 1973 U.K. Concert Expands Bob Marley & The Wailers' BURNIN' Into Two-CD DELUXE EDITION
Package Also Includes the Original 'I Shot The Sheriff' Plus Never-Before-Issued Versions of 'Get Up, Stand Up'
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- BURNIN', the legendary 1973 album that introduced many American and British rock fans to reggae and to Bob Marley & The Wailers, has been augmented with five bonus tracks (two previously unreleased) and expanded into a two-CD package featuring a never-before-issued live concert also from 1973. BURNIN' - DELUXE EDITION (Island/Tuff Gong/UMe), released September 28, 2004, also includes complete lyrics, an essay and photographs in a 24-page booklet. BURNIN' joins the previously released DELUXE EDITION Bob Marley & The Wailers classics LEGEND, EXODUS, CATCH A FIRE and RASTAMAN VIBRATION.
The Wailers' debut Island album Catch A Fire was released in early 1973. BURNIN' followed in October and spotlighted some of the group's most beloved songs and performances -- "I Shot The Sheriff," "Get Up, Stand Up" and remakes of pre-Island songs "Small Axe," "Duppy Conqueror" and "Put It On." The DELUXE EDITION boasts the 2001 reissue's digital remaster from the original two-track analog master tapes. That reissue also included the b-side "Reincarnated Soul" and the until-then unreleased "No Sympathy" and "The Oppressed Song." Now added are both an alternate take and a single version of "Get Up, Stand Up," each previously unreleased.
BURNIN' marked the final collaboration of the Wailers' founding frontline of Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. The latter pair would soon exit and Marley would go on to become an international icon. Disc Two of this DELUXE EDITION preserves a 12-song Wailers performance at Leeds Polytechnic on November 23, 1973, near the end of their tour of England. One of the Wailers' last shows with Tosh (Bunny Wailer had already departed), the recording -- mixed and mastered for the first time in 2004 -- offers a fascinating glimpse into an otherwise undocumented phase of the band's history.
The "Live At Leeds" disc includes the BURNIN' highlights "Duppy Conqueror," "Burnin' And Lootin'," "Get Up, Stand Up" and "Put It On" plus CATCH A FIRE tracks "Slave Driver," "Stop That Train," "Midnight Ravers," "No More Trouble," "Kinky Reggae" and "Stir It Up." Also included is "You Can't Blame The Youth," which went unreleased until the 1991 compilation TALKIN' BLUES, and a 13-minute "Lively Up Yourself," an early number Marley would revive for 1974's NATTY DREAD album.
Among the rock stars influenced by BURNIN' was Eric Clapton, whose rendition of "I Shot The Sheriff" hit #1 in the U.S. in 1974. That, in turn, gave a major boost to reggae with the general public and to recognition for Marley as a superstar.
Source: Island/Tuff Gong/UMe
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