Hybrid Stereo SACD release from Analogue ProductionsMastered Direct To DSD by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original master tapePlays in all CD and SACD playersBurnin039 is the Wailers039 sixth album, released in October 1973. All three members of the band Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer the last time before Tosh and Bunny departed for solo careers and the band became known as Bob Marley amp The Wailers wrote for, recorded and produced the album in Jamaica. Burnin039 promoted the Wailers into international fame, led by the classic hits 34I Shot The Sheriff34 a subsequent U.S. No. 1 for Eric Clapton and the enduring anthem of people power, adopted by civil rights activists worldwide 34Get Up, Stand Up.34Burnin039 was, to some degree, a summary of the Wailers039 progress to this point. An album full of revolutionary fire and fervor, it was also the last, heroic distillation of a lineup that had taken the teenaged Wailer, Tosh, and Marley on a journey from the streets of Trenchtown to the brink of global stardom.Although a 34new34 act in Britain and America, the Wailers had been singing and recording together since 1963, and could boast a plentiful catalog of songs which were largely unknown outside Jamaica. Several of the tracks on Burnin039 were rerecordings of songs that had been released before. 34Put It On,34 a gentle, spiritual groove with the more emollient chant of 34Lord I Thank You,34 had been released as a single on the Studio One label in Jamaica in 1965, when it was one of the first songs to coin the word 34toasting34 to refer to the lyrical style of chanting by the dancehall DJs. Likewise 34Duppy Conqueror34 and 34Small Axe34 were both new recordings of songs that were old favorites in the Wailers039 story.From Burnin039 forward it would be Bob Marley who was very much the man in charge.
