Burnin' is the sixth studio album by Jamaican reggae band The Wailers , released in October It was written mostly by bandleader Bob Marley and produced by Chris Blackwell. A commercial and critical success in the United States, Burnin ' was certified Gold and later added to the National Recording Registry , with the Library of Congress deeming it historically and culturally significant. The sixth album by Bob Marley , Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer the last before Tosh and Bunny departed for solo careers and the band became known as Bob Marley and the Wailers , Burnin ' opens with a signature song , the call to action "Get Up, Stand Up" and includes a more confrontational and militant tone than previous records, such as in another Marley standard turned into a number one hit by Eric Clapton , "I Shot the Sheriff". Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies , Robert Christgau wrote: "This is as perplexing as it is jubilant—sometimes gripping, sometimes slippery. It's reggae, obviously, but it's not mainstream reggae, certainly not rock or soul, maybe some kind of futuristic slow funk, War without the pseudo-jazz.
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Things moved fast in the music business of Still billed only as The Wailers, and still led by the three-man vocal front line of Bob Marley , Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, the band was now moving through the gears with an increasing sense of mission. Although Catch A Fire had not been a hit, the response to it among tastemakers and early adopters had been overwhelming. Island Records supremo Chris Blackwell, who had begun his career selling records by Jamaican acts from the boot of his car to the expatriate community in Britain, knew a thing or two about this particular market and now scented something spectacular in the air.
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