On this day in music history: October 6, 1992 - Songs Of Freedom by Bob Marley is released. Compilation Producers: Trevor Wyatt, Neville Garrick, Chris Blackwell and Rita Marley. The four CD (and very limited eight LP vinyl boxed edition released in Jamaica only) seventy eight track box set spans the length of reggae legend Marleys recording career from his first single Judge Not in 1961 to his final recordings in 1980. The set will include many alternate, live and previously unreleased versions of his best known material including a version of Redemption Song recorded at the bands last live performance at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA (on September 23, 1980). The box will be limited to 1,000,000 individually numbered copies worldwide, which will sell out within eighteen months of its release. The initial pressing of the CD set is packaged with hard cover book styled packaging with extensive annotation (from various music historians), and a number of previously unpublished photos of Marley and The Wailers, designed by longtime graphic artist collaborator Neville Garrick. The box will later be reissued with compact and less elaborate packaging in 1999. It will be reissued again in 2005 (for the European market) restoring the original 1992 packaging also including a bonus DVD documentary on Bob Marley titled Rebel Music. Songs Of Freedom will peak at number eighty six on the Billboard Top 200, number twenty four on the R&B album chart, and is certified 2x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:00:53 +0000
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