The Wailers
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The Wailers: Catch A Fire (Island)
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 29 March 1973
SOME TIME during the coming summer, Reggae will become a vital force in pop music — perhaps, for a while at least, the force. For those who ...
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, May 1973
AFTER ALL THESE veers, a new Wailers' LP! But wait, Catch A Fire doesn't have anything to do with those soggy Seattle-ites who rocked hot ...
The Wailers: Speakeasy, London
Live Review by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 26 May 1973
IF YOU FOUND the Wailers' debut Island album, Catch A Fire, an uncomfortable sidestep to your usual tastes, I'd strongly advise you to witness a ...
Bruce Springsteen, The Wailers: Max's Kansas City, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 19 July 1973
Rock and reggae ...
The Wailers: the Matrix, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 30 October 1973
Reggae — active and complex ...
Peter Tosh: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 28 August 1976
'Legalise it' says roots rock reggae hero Pete Tosh 'Yeah!' says Sounds gal VIVIEN GOLDMAN 'Evenin' all' says the man from the drugs squad ...
Peter Tosh: The Bush Doctor is in
Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, August 1979
FIRST TACTICAL error: having arranged earlier in the day to meet with a long admired reggae legend at a given place and hour, I trust ...
Comment by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 27 September 1987
THE DEATH OF Peter Tosh, gunned down Sept 11 at his Kingston, Jamaica, home during an apparent robbery, is only the latest tragedy in the ...
Obituary by Lloyd Bradley, Q, November 1987
Bitter, violent, a few bricks short of the load, Peter Tosh was a hard man to love. Lloyd Bradley investigates the gangland connections that resulted ...
A Wailer Surfaces to Claim Reggae's Crown
Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 26 August 1988
After Marley, what price reggae? Mark Cooper on Bunny Wailer's musical crusade ...
The Wailers: Burnin’ (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong/Island)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2005
CATCH A FIRE set the world alight but Burnin got it blazing. By the time Eric Clapton took the albums I Shot the Sheriff to ...
see also Bob Marley & the Wailers
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