Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Album "Natty Dread" By Bob Marley



Here is the album "Natty Dread" (Expanded) by Bob Marley ...

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Year: 1974

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Natty Dread is Bob Marley's finest album, the ultimate reggae recording of all time. This was Marley's first album without former bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston, and the first released as Bob Marley & the Wailers. The Wailers' rhythm section of bassist Aston "Family Man" Barrett and drummer Carlton "Carlie" Barrett remained in place and even contributed to the songwriting, while Marley added a female vocal trio, the I-Threes (which included his wife Rita Marley), and additional instrumentation to flesh out the sound. The material presented here defines what reggae was originally all about, with political and social commentary mixed with religious paeans to Jah. The celebratory "Lively Up Yourself" falls in the same vein as "Get Up, Stand Up" from Burnin'. "No Woman, No Cry" is one of the band's best-known ballads. "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" is a powerful warning that "a hungry mob is an angry mob." "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block)" and "Revolution" continue in that spirit, as Marley assumes the mantle of prophet abandoned by '60s forebears like Bob Dylan. In addition to the lyrical strengths, the music itself is full of emotion and playfulness, with the players locked into a solid groove on each number. Considering that popular rock music was entering the somnambulant disco era as Natty Dread was released, the lyrical and musical potency is especially striking. Marley was taking on discrimination, greed, poverty, and hopelessness while simultaneously rallying the troops as no other musical performer was attempting to do in the mid-'70s. [The 2001 Definitive Remasters edition also includes the track "Am-A-Do," which was recorded during the Natty Dread sessions but shelved until the 1991 compilation, Talkin' Blues. It is restored here to its proper chronological context.]


Track Listing:


1.Lively Up Yourself music or lyric

2.No Woman, No Cry music or lyric

3.Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) music or lyric

4.Rebel Music (Three O'Clock Roadblock) music or lyric

5.So Jah Seh music or lyric

6.Natty Dread (LP Version) music or lyric

7.Bend Down Low music or lyric

8.Talkin' Blues music or lyric

9.Revolution music or lyric

10.Am-A-Do music or lyric

The Album "African Herbsman" By Bob Marley And The Wailers



Here is the album "African Herbsman" by Bob Marley And The Wailers (third album)
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Year: 1973
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Track Listing:

1.Lively Up Yourself music or lyric
2.Small Axe music or lyric
3.Duppy Conqueror music or lyric
4.Trenchtown Rock music or lyric
5.African Herbsman music or lyric
6.Keep On Moving music or lyric
7.Fussing & Fighting music or lyric
8.Stand Alone music or lyric
9.Medley: All In One, Pt. 1 music or lyric
10. Don't Rock the Boat music or lyric
11.Put It On music or lyric
12.Sun Is Shining music or lyric
13.Kaya music or lyric
14.Riding High music or lyric
15.Brain Washing music or lyric
16.Four Hundred Years music or lyric
17.Memphis (Dub Version) [Bonus Track] - Artist: The Upsetters music or lyric
18.Live (Lively Up Yourself Version) [Bonus Track] - Artist: Tommy McCook music or lyric
19.More Axe (Bonus Track) music or lyric
20.The Axe Man (Small Axe Version) [Bonus Track] - Artist: The Upsetters music or lyric
21.Zig Zag (Duppy Conqueror Version) [Bonus Track] - Artist: The Upsetters music or lyric
22.Grooving Kingston 12 (Trench Town Rock Version) (Bonus Track) music or lyric
23.Moving Version (Bonus Track) - Artist: Big Youth music or lyric
24.Keep On Skanking (Bonus Track) music or lyric
25.Medley: Copasetic (All In One Version) [Instrumental] {Bonus Track} - Artist: upsetters music or lyric
26.Kaya (Bonus Track) music or lyric

The Album "Catch A Fire" By Bob Marley & The Wailers(second album)



Here is The Album "Catch A Fire" By Bob Marley And The Wailers (second album)
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Year: 1973
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Bob Marley was already a hardened veteran of the Jamaican music scene by the time that Catch a Fire saw international release in the spring of 1973. He had recorded low-slung New Orleans style R&B with Leslie Kong, soaring Rocksteady with Coxsone Dodd and adventurous, uncompromising Roots music with the inimitable Lee Perry. Had his career ended in 1972 Marley would still be one of the pre-eminent figures in Jamaican music, but the release of Catch a Fire, one of the first internationally distributed Roots records, set Marley on the path to global superstardom and changed the general public’s conception of reggae forever. While singers like John Holt Desmond Dekker and The Heptones’ Leroy Sibbles had achieved commercial success in the UK and, to a lesser extent, in America with their lovelorn Rocksteady balladry and rowdily picturesque gunman anthems, Marley’s Catch a Fire was unique for its strident political stance and unadorned Roots textures. From the plaintive ghetto reportage of “Concrete Jungle” to the sufferers’ manifesto “400 Years,Marley, along with fellow Wailers Bunny Marley and Peter Tosh, gives us a street level view of Kingston life with his stunning melodic sensibility and deft lyricism. While Marley would go on to even greater success with his next few releases, Catch a Fire provided a blueprint for his future triumphs, and remains one of the most revelatory Jamaican albums ever recorded.
Track Listing:

1.Concrete Jungle music or lyric
2.Slave Driver music or lyric
3.400 Years music or lyric
4.Stop That Train music or lyric
5.Baby We've Got a Date (Rock It Baby) music or lyric
6.Stir It Up music or lyric
7.Kinky Reggae music or lyric
8.More Trouble music or lyric
9.Midnight Ravers music or lyric
10.High Tide or Low Tide (Jamaican Version) music or lyric
11.All Day All Night (Jamaican Version) music or lyric

Monday, January 24, 2011

The Album "Soul Rebels" By Bob Marley & The Wailers (first album)



Here is the album "Soul Rebels" by Bob Marley
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Year: 1970
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Originally issued in 1970, Soul Rebels was the first album credited to Bob Marley & the Wailers, and it was also the band's first full-length collaboration with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, for whom they had already recorded a string of fairly successful singles. Working with the newly configured Upsetters band, Marley and crew delivered a strange and wonderful set of early reggae that at times plays fast and loose with the already established conventions of the genre — on "My Cup" the beat sounds inside out, while "It's Alright" sounds like a slightly Jamaicanized version of Motown soul. Other songs, such as the beautifully harmonized "Try Me," show their deep roots in rocksteady. One of the most arresting tracks on the album is the Bunny Wailer composition "Four Hundred Years," on which Wailer unburdens himself of some of his typically dread pronouncements in his rich, chesty voice. The 2004 Jad/Hip-O edition of the album includes the bonus track "Jah Is Mighty" and an alternate version of the title track.
Track Listing:

1.Soul Rebel music or lyric
2.Try Me music or lyric
3.It's Alright music or lyric
4.No Sympathy music or lyric
5.My Cup music or lyric
6.Soul Almighty music or lyric
7.Rebel's Hop *3 music or lyric
8.Corner Stone music or lyric
9.400 Years music or lyric
10.No Water music or lyric
11.Reaction music or lyric
12.My Sympathy music or lyric
13.Jah Is Mighty music or lyric
14.Soul Rebel (Version 4) music or lyric

Friday, January 21, 2011

The Album "Frank" By Amy Winehouse (Fist Album)



The Album "Frank" By Amy Winehouse
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Year: 2003
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Frank is the debut album of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, released 20 October 2003 on Island Records. Production for the album took place during 2002 to 2003 and was handled by Winehouse, Salaam Remi, Commissioner Gordon, Jimmy Hogarth, and Matt Rowe. Its title alludes to the nature and tone of Winehouse's lyrics on the album.
Upon its release, Frank received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Winehouse several accolades, including an Ivor Novello Award. Since its original release in the United Kingdom, the album has been reissued in Canada, the United States, and Australia. It has been certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, with shipments in excess of 900,000 copies in the UK.
Track Listings:


1.Intro / Stronger Than Me music or lyric or video
2.You Sent Me Flying
music or lyric or video
3.Know You Now
music or lyric or video
4.F... Me Pumps
music or lyric or video
5.I Heard Love Is Blind
music or lyric or video
6.Moody's Mood For Love
music or lyric or video
7.(There Is) No Greater Love
music or lyric or video
8.In My Bed
music or lyric or video
9.Take the Box
music or lyric or video
10.October Song
music or lyric or video
11.What Is It About Men
music or lyric or video
12.Help Yourself
music or lyric or video
13.Amy Amy Amy / Outro
music or lyric or video

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Biography Of Amy Winehouse

since it's too long The summery can be read in the official website of Amy Winehouse !!.



Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B, soul, and jazz. Winehouse is best
known for her powerful contralto vocals and substance abuse and mental health issues In 2005, she went through a period of drinking, heavy drug use, violent mood swings and weight loss.

Winehouse was born in the Southgate area of north London to a Jewish family who shared her interest for jazz. She was raised in a family of four: her father Mitchell (taxi driver), her mother Janis (pharmacist), and her older brother Alex. Mitchell would constantly sing around the house, often singing Frank Sinatra to young Amy, who also took to a constant habit of singing to the point that teachers found it difficult keeping her quiet in class.

When Winehouse was nine years old, her grandmother, Cynthia, suggested she attend the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School for further training. At age ten, Winehouse founded a short-lived rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour with childhood friend Juliette Ashby. She stayed at the Earnshaw school for four years before seeking full time training at Sylvia Young Theatre School, but was allegedly expelled at 14 for "not applying herself" and for piercing her nose. With other children from the Sylvia Young School, she appeared in an episode of The Fast Show in 1997. She later attended the BRIT School in Selhurst, Croydon and attended Southgate School and Ashmole School.

After toying with her brother's guitar, Winehouse received her first guitar when she was 13, and began writing music a year later. She began working soon after, including as a "showbiz journalist" for the World Entertainment News Network, in addition to singing with a jazz band. Her sometimes boyfriend at the time, soul singer Tyler James, sent her demo tape to an A&R person. Winehouse signed to Simon Fuller's 19 Management in 2002. While being developed by the management company, the artist was kept an industry secret. Her future A&R at Island/Universal, Darcus Beese, heard her by accident when the manager of The Lewinson Brothers showed him some productions of his clients on which Winehouse featured as vocalist. When he asked who the singer was the manager told him he was not allowed to say. Having decided that he wanted to sign her it took several months of asking around for Beese to eventually discover who the singer was. By this time Winehouse had already recorded a number of songs and signed a publishing deal with EMI. Through the publishers she formed a working relationship with the producer Salaam Remi.

Beese introduced Winehouse to his boss, Nick Gatfield, and the Island head shared his enthusiasm in signing the young artist. Winehouse was signed to Island/Universal as rival interest in Winehouse had started to build, with representatives at EMI and Virgin also starting to make movies. Beese told HitQuarters that he felt the reason behind the excitement over an artist that was an untypical pop star for the time was due to a backlash against reality TV music shows with audiences becoming starved of genuine young talent.

Winehouse's 2003 debut album Frank was critically successful in the UK, and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. many songs were influenced by jazz and, apart from two covers, every song was co-written by Winehouse. The album received positive reviews with compliments over the "cool, critical gaze" in its lyrics and brought comparisons of her voice to Sarah Vaughan, Macy Gray and others. The album entered the upper levels of the UK album chart in 2004 when it was nominated for BRIT Awards in the categories of "British Female Solo Artist" and "British Urban Act". It went on to achieve platinum sales. Later in 2004, she won the Ivor Novello songwriting Award for Best Contemporary Song, alongside Salaam Remi, with her contribution to the first single, "Stronger Than Me". The album also made the short list for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. In the same year, she performed at the Glastonbury festival, on the Jazzworld stage, and at the V Festival. After the release of the album, Winehouse commented that she was "only 80 percent behind the album" because of the inclusion by her record label of certain songs and mixes she disliked.

In contrast to her jazz-influenced former album, Winehouse's focus shifted to the girl
groups
of the 1950s and 1960s. Winehouse hired New York singer Sharon Jones's longtime band, the Dap-Kings to back her up in the studio and on tour. In May 2006, Winehouse's demonstration tracks such as "You Know I'm No Good" and "Rehab" appeared on Mark Ronson's New York radio show on East Village Radio. These were some of the first new songs played on the radio after the release of "Pumps" and both were slated to appear on her second album. The 11-track album was produced entirely by Salaam Remi and Ronson, with the production credits being split between them. Ronson said in a 2010 interview that he liked working with Winehouse because she was blunt when she did not like his work. Promotion of Back to Black soon began, and in early October 2006, Winehouse's official website was re-launched with a new layout and clips of previously unreleased songs. Back to Black was released in the UK on 30 October 2006. It went to number one on the UK Albums Chart numerous times, and entered at number seven on the Billboard 200 in the United States. It was the best-selling album in the UK in 2007, selling 1.85 million copies over the year.

Back to Black led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British singer to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She has won the Ivor Novello Award three times, one in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for "Stronger Than Me", one in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for "Rehab", and one in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game", among other prestigious distinctions. The album was the third biggest seller of the 2000s in the United Kingdom. Winehouse has agreed to form a group with The Roots drummer ?uestlove.

British singer Adele has credited Winehouse's success in the United States for making her and fellow British singer Duffy's journey to the United States "a bit smoother". American singer Lady Gaga credited Winehouse with paving the way for her rise to the top of the
charts. She appeared to be using a metaphorical analogy to explain that Winehouse made it easier for unconventional women to have mainstream pop success. The "Winehouse phenomenon" has been credited by Sebastian Danchin, author of Encyclopedia of Rhythm & Blues and Soul, of kick-starting a revival of soul music that has been ongoing since 2000. Danchin quoting Raphael Saadiq, Anthony Hamilton, and John Legend said "Amy Winehouse was produced by people who wanted to create a marketing coup. The positive side is that it reacquainted an audience with this music and played an introductory role for others. This reinvigorated the genre by overcoming the vintage aspect".

The release of Back to Black and the emergence of Lily Allen has been credited by The
Sunday Times
as directly creating the market for the media proclaimed "the year of the
women" in 2009 which has seen five female artists nominated for the Mercury Prize. After the album was released record companies sought out female artists with a similar sound and fearless and experimental female musicians in general. Adele and Duffy were the second wave of artists with a similar sound to Winehouse. A third wave of female musicians that has emerged since the album was released are led by VV Brown, Florence and the Machine, La Roux and Little Boots. In February 2010, rapper Jay-Z credited Winehouse with revitalizing British music, saying, "There's a strong push coming out of London right now, which is great. It's been coming ever since I guess Amy (Winehouse). I mean always, but I think Amy, this resurgence was ushered in by Amy."

Winehouse has been credited as being an influence in the rise in popularity of female musicians and soul music and revitalising British music. Winehouse's distinctive style has been the muse for fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld. The singer's problems with drug and alcohol abuse, as well as self-destructive behaviour, have become regular tabloid news since 2007. She and her former husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were plagued by legal troubles that left him serving prison time. In 2008, Winehouse faced a series of health complications that threatened both her career and her life.


On 10 July 2008, Winehouse launched her own club night, Snakehips at the Monarch, in the Camden Monarch venue in London. Although billed as a DJ battle between her and another DJ, she stayed behind the decks swaying as another person actually played 1960s music. She appeared at another Snakeships event at the Monarch on the night of 11 September. After reportedly arriving two hours late she spun music and played a short acoustic set.

sources: en.wikipedia.org , www.amywinehouse.com