Grooving Kingston 12 - Bob Marley 3 CD Set - Jad Masters 1970-1972
This is an attractive three-disc box set of material that Bob Marley & the Wailers recorded in the early '70s.
Grooving Kingston 12 does has liner notes and musician credits, which is a rarity with most pre-Island releases of Marley material.
The first disc collects early Jamaican singles released on the Wailers' own Tuff Gong label, along with the usual instrumental versions and DJ toasts.
These are rough and raw recordings, full of a kind of nascent charm, with dominant horn arrangements.
The second disc features some of the best work the Wailers ever did.
Working with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry at Randy's in Kingston, the Wailers recorded the songs that would make up the Trojan LPs Soul Rebels and African Herbsman, releases that redefined the direction and future of reggae.
The final disc collects song demos Marley recorded for Danny Sims and Johnny Nash in Europe in 1971, along with a couple of late Tuff Gong singles, including another fine Perry track, "Sun Is Shining," and "Satisfy My Soul Babe," which points toward the kind of sound Marley would develop later at Island Records. The Sims demos are interesting for compositional and historical reasons, particularly the long solo acoustic medley Marley recorded in a hotel room in Sweden in 1971.
The rather ordinary-sounding "Music Gonna Teach (aka Music Lesson)," which has gained some luster among Marley fans simply because few people have actually heard it.
- TRACK LISTING
- 1 DISC ONE
- 2 CONCRETE JUNGLE
- 3 SCREW FACE
- 4 LIVELY UP YOURSELF
- 5 REDDER THAN RED
- 6 CRAVEN CHOKE PUPPY
- 7 DO GOOD
- 8 TRENCHTOWN ROCK
- 9 KINGSTON 12
- 10 LICK SAMBA
- 11 GUAVA JELLY
- 12 SATISFY MY SOUL JAH JAH
- 13 RUN FOR COVER
- 14 POUR DOWN THE SUNSHINE
- 15 SEND ME THAT LOVE
- 16 LOVELIGHT VERSION
- 17 AMMUNITION
- 18 FACE MAN
- 19 RED
- 20 CHOKE
- 21 GROOVING KINGSTON 12
- 22 SAMBA
- 23 JELLY
- 24 DISC TWO
- 25 BLACK PROGRESS
- 26 KAYA
- 27 AFRICAN HERBSMAN
- 28 WHO IS MR BROWN
- 29 MY CUP
- 30 DOWNPRESSOR
- 31 SMALL AXE
- 32 DREAMLAND
- 33 FUSSIN & FIGHTING
- 34 KEEP ON MOVING
- 35 SECOND HAND
- 36 ALL IN ONE
- 37 BLACK PROGRESS VERSION
- 38 KAYA VERSION
- 39 AFRICAN HERBSMAN VERSION
- 40 DRACULAR
- 41 DOWNPRESSOR VERSION
- 42 BATTLE AXE
- 43 DREAMLAND VERSION
- 44 MY CUP VERSION
- 45 KEEP ON MOVING VERSION
- 46 SECOND HAND PART 2
- 47 DISC 3
- 48 GUAVE JELLY
- 49 THIS TRAIN
- 50 CORNERSTONE
- 51 COMMA COMMA
- 52 DEWDROPS
- 53 STIR IT UP
- 54 I'M HURTING INSIDE
- 55 CRY TO ME
- 56 SUN IS SHINING
- 57 HEATHEN'S RAGE
- 58 SATISFY MY SOUL BABE
- 59 ROCK MY BOAT
- 60 I LIKE IT LIKE THIS - JONNY LOVER
- 61 HOLD ON TO THIS FEELING
- 62 ROCK TO THE ROCK
- 63 ROCKING STEADY
- 64 I'M HURTINF INSIDE
- 65 MUSIC GONNA TEACH
- 66 I'M STILL WAITING
- 67 BABE VERSION
- 68 SUN IS SHINING VERSION
- 69 HOLD ON TO THIS FEELING VERSION
- 70 MUSIC GONNA TEACH VERSION
