Artist: BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
Album: THE MASTERS COLLECTION (CD)

Release date: 2008
EAN/UPS: 0600753149195
Media type: CD

There is a bewildering array of Bob Marley collections on the market, and new ones pop up all the time, but they generally are pretty fly-by-night with few track notes and are usually tossed together with little regard for either chronology or stylistic coherence. This one is one of those, with a mix of Wailers self-productions, some as early as 1967, a couple of Mortimo Planno productions from 1968, and several tracks produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry from 1970 and 1971. There's nothing wrong with the music -- it's fine, particularly the Perry material -- but this set doesn't really show much thought or design and Marley and the Wailers certainly deserve plenty of both of those things.

TRACKLIST:

1. Nice Time
2. Mellow Mood
3. Dreamland
4. Small Axe
5. Concrete Jungle
6. Satisfy My Soul Jah Jah
7. Trench Town Rock
8. Lively Up Yourself
9. Kaya
10. Play Play
11. Stir It Up
12. Steppin' Razor
13. Duppy Conqueror
14. Soul Shakedown Party
15. Sugar Sugar
16. Redder Than Red
17. Who Is Mr Brown
18. Black Progress
19. Selassie Is the Chapel