Peter Tosh - Original Album Series (2014)

Original Album Series features Bush Doctor (1978), Mystic Man (1979), Wanted Dread & Alive (1981), Mama Africa (1983) and No Nuclear War (1987).
Singer, musician, composer, and rebel Peter Tosh cut a swathe through the Jamaican musical scene, both as a founding member of the Wailers and as a solo artist. Bush Doctor, co-produced with Robbie Shakespeare is a much more ?Jamaican? album than its predecessors, the record featured the exquisite Tamlins on backing vocals, and some of the island?s top session men, led of course by Sly & Robbie, but boasting Keith Richards? seminal guitar on two tracks. Mystic Man again featured a lighter touch, although songs like ?Rumours of War? and ?Jah Seh No? were as tough as anything Tosh had offered up in the past. Wanted Dread & Alive, Tosh?s final album for the Glimmer Twins? imprint label found him continuing to relish his image of urban bandit, as the Wild West-style wanted-poster graphics aptly illustrate. Most ?accessible? solo album, Mama Africa would also be his best seller outside Jamaica, the only one of his albums to break into the U.K. Top 50 and even push into the bottom reaches of the U.S. chart. Tosh then disappeared off the musical map for the next three years, and it wasn?t until 1987 that a new single, ?In My Song,? arrived. In September, it was joined by the album No Nuclear War.