Mama Africa (album)

Mama Africa is the fifth and last published during his lifetime studio album by Peter Tosh. It was his most commercially successful LP outside of Jamaica. He took in the course of spring 1983 in the Dynamic Sound Studios in Kingston ( Jamaica). It was published in the United Kingdom and the United States in April 1983. In the U.S., the album was able to place in the charts and peaked at position 59

Style and formation

In Mama Africa Tosh put his attention less than the previous albums on the text statements, but focused on the music he produced in collaboration with Chris Kimsey. He mixed new songs with new recordings of older songs, his own title Stop That Train and Maga Dog from his time with the Wailers. He stood for the Rhythm Section two different duos to the side; for a Carlton Davis and Lebert Morrison, on the other Sly & Robbie. The singing backing vocals on three songs, the Tamlins, the busiest at that time background choir of reggae music. Betty Wright also be heard on the LP. Playing guitar Donald Kinsey, who also wrote the song Where You Gonna Run for the LP. Tosh moves safely through a number of styles from " Caribbean flair with African Beat" on the title track on the anti-nuclear missile song Peace Treaty with the sounds of falling bombs up to his idiosyncratic interpretation of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode, which has become a " absolute crescendo of sounds " developed.

Title list

Outcouplings

A month before the LP Johnny B. Goode was released as a single and released on their B-side also was a song on the album with Peace Treaty. The single was released on both sides of the Atlantic a minor hit ( number 48 in the UK Top 40 and number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100 ) In Great Britain in May and September in the year two more single releases; neither Where You Gonna Run / Stop That Train nor the title track of the LP, Mama Africa with the B-side Not Gonna Give It Up, could be placed in the chart.

Republication

In 2002 Mama Africa has been digitally remastered and released on CD. The remixed contained three additional tracks, namely one long version (long version) by Johnny B. Goode and Where You Gonna Run and the single version of Mama Africa.