Bob Marley and The Wailers - Natty Dread (Half-Speed Master)

• 180-gram LP
• Half-speed mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios in London

Twelve Bob Marley & The Wailers albums are being remastered and reissued by Tuff Gong International through a limited-edition LP series to be available starting November 20, 2020. They include all nine Bob Marley & The Wailers studio albums recorded for Island Records, plus the live albums Live! and Babylon By Bus, and the world's best-selling reggae album, Legend.

Half-speed mastering produces far superior high-frequency (treble) response, and richer and fuller low-to-middle frequencies. All tracks were mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios in London.

For Bob Marley, 1975 was a triumphant year. The singer's Natty Dread album featured one of his strongest batches of original material (the first compiled after the departure of Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer) and delivered Top 40 hit "No Woman No Cry."

"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." — AllMusic

	1. Lively Up Yourself
	2. Bend Down Low
	3. No Woman No Cry
	4. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
	5. Rebel Music (3 O’Clock Roadblock)
	6. So Jah S’eh
	7. Natty Dread
	8. Talkin’ Blues
	9. Revolution