True Love (Toots & the Maytals album)

True Love
Studio album by
Toots & the Maytals
ReleasedApril 6, 2004
GenreReggae
Length61:27
LabelV2 Records
ProducerRichard Feldman
Toots & the Maytals chronology
World Is Turning
(2003) 		True Love
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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And It Don't StopA[1]
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True Love is an album by Toots & the Maytals. It is a collection of their classics re-recorded with guest artists including Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Trey Anastasio, No Doubt, Ben Harper, Bonnie Raitt, Manu Chao, The Roots, Ryan Adams, Keith Richards, and The Skatalites. The album was produced and conceived by Richard Feldman and released on the V2 label.

True Love won the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.

Critical reception

Revisiting the album after Toots Hibbert's death in 2020, Robert Christgau appraised the opening songs as "glorious" and said that overall, "with Hibbert's slightly less muscular timbre as roughly soulful as ever", these remakes "constitute as fine an album as he ever made".[1]

Track listing

All tracks credited to Toots Hibbert, unless otherwise noted.

# Name Featured guest(s) Time
1 "Still Is Still Moving to Me" Willie Nelson 3:11
2 "True Love Is Hard to Find" Bonnie Raitt 4:27
3 "Pressure Drop" Eric Clapton 2:57
4 "Time Tough" Ryan Adams 3:23
5 "Bam Bam" Shaggy and Rahzel 3:46
6 "54-46 Was My Number" Jeff Beck 4:40
7 "Monkey Man" No Doubt 3:39
8 "Sweet and Dandy" Trey Anastasio 3:17
9 "Funky Kingston" Bootsy Collins and The Roots 4:06
10 "Reggae Got Soul" Ken Boothe and Marcia Griffiths 2:58
11 "Never Grow Old" Terry Hall, The Skatalites and U-Roy 3:27
12 "Take a Trip" Bunny Wailer 3:57
13 "Love Gonna Walk Out on Me" Ben Harper 3:33
14 "Careless Ethiopians" Keith Richards 3:20
15 "Blame on Me" Rachael Yamagata 3:57
16 "Merry Blues" Manu Chao 3:49
17 "Reggae Got Soul" Gentleman 2:54

Personnel

TooTs is Frederick Hibbert

Senior Executive Producer; MIKE CACIA 30+years (Deceased 2016)

Production

Awards

Year Nominated work Category Award Result Notes Ref.
2004 True Love Best Reggae Album Grammy Won [2]

References

  1. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (October 14, 2020). "Consumer Guide: October, 2020". And It Don't Stop. Substack. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
  2. ^ "Past Winners: 2004: Reggae". The Redording Academy. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
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