Kaya (Album)
Occupation
- Vocals / Rhythm Guitar / Percussion: Bob Marley
- Bass / Percussion: Aston Barrett
- Drums / percussion Carlton Barrett
- Keyboards / Percussion: Tyrone Downie
- Percussion: Alvin Patterson
- Lead Guitar: Junior Marvin
- Drums: Winston Grennan
- Trumpet: Glen DaCosta
- Trumpet: David Madden
- Saxophone: Vin Gordon
- Backing Vocals: I- Threes The
Kaya is the title of an album, the Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley & The Wailers and was released on March 23, 1978. Kaya is a word from the Jamaican patois and means something like " grass " or " hemp ".
The songs on the album are indeed created in late 1976 in England during the same recording sessions as those on the album Exodus, but are overall far less combative. There are mainly love songs and tributes to the power of marijuana. Individual successes were the songs Is This Love? and Sun Is Shining.
The album received a rather negative criticism due to the commercial orientation and partly very simple rhyming texts. The Rolling Stone Magazine called lines of text as I want to love you, and treat you right, I wanna love you, every day and every night as quoted from the rhyming dictionary.
The back of the record cover showed a drawing ( by Neville Garrick ) of a burning joint. In Japan, the album was issued because of misgiving against this drawing with a different cover.
The CD contains a bonus track, the song Smile Jamaica, which was originally published as the back of Satisfy my Soul and did not appear on the LP.