True Love (Toots & the Maytals album)

{{Infobox album

| name = True Love

| type = Album

| artist = Toots & the Maytals

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| released = April 6, 2004

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| genre = Reggae

| length = 61:27

| label = V2 Records

| producer = Richard Feldman

| prev_title = World Is Turning

| prev_year = 2003

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{{Album reviews

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r683335|pure_url=yes}} link]

|rev2 = And It Don't Stop

|rev2Score = A{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|date=October 14, 2020|url=https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-guide-october-2020|title=Consumer Guide: October, 2020|work=And It Don't Stop|publisher=Substack|accessdate=April 30, 2021|url-access=subscription}}

|rev3 = Blender

|rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}} [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=1983 link]

|rev4 = Rolling Stone

|rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001160716/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tootsandthemaytals/albums/album/5175723/review/5942176/true_love link]

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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".

Track listing

All tracks credited to Toots Hibbert, unless otherwise noted.

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align="center"\|# !align="center"\|Name !align="center"\|Featured guest(s) !align="center"\|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

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align="center"|#

!align="center"|Name

!align="center"|Featured guest(s)

!align="center"|Time

|"Still Is Still Moving to Me"

|Willie Nelson

|3:11

|"True Love Is Hard to Find"

|Bonnie Raitt

|4:27

|"Pressure Drop"

|Eric Clapton

|2:57

|"Time Tough"

|Ryan Adams

|3:23

|"Bam Bam"

|Shaggy and Rahzel

|3:46

|"54-46 Was My Number"

|Jeff Beck

|4:40

|"Monkey Man"

|No Doubt

|3:39

|"Sweet and Dandy"

|Trey Anastasio

|3:17

|"Funky Kingston"

|Bootsy Collins and The Roots

|4:06

|"Reggae Got Soul"

|Ken Boothe and Marcia Griffiths

|2:58

|"Never Grow Old"

|Terry Hall, The Skatalites and U-Roy

|3:27

|"Take a Trip"

|Bunny Wailer

|3:57

|"Love Gonna Walk Out on Me"

|Ben Harper

|3:33

|"Careless Ethiopians"

|Keith Richards

|3:20

|"Blame on Me"

|Rachael Yamagata

|3:57

|"Merry Blues"

|Manu Chao

|3:49

|"Reggae Got Soul"

|Gentleman

|2:54

Personnel

Toots and the Maytals:
Andrew Bassford
Radcliffe Bryan
Paul Douglas
Charles Farquharson
Carl Harvey
Frederick "Toots" Hibbert
Clifton Jackie Jackson
Norris Webb
Stephen Stewart
Leba Thomas

TooTs is Frederick Hibbert

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

Production

Engineers/mixers: Richard Feldman, Rudolph Valentino, Tom Weir, [http://www.allmusic.com/album/true-love-mw0000337284/credits Ted Paduck] Executive Senior Producer Mike Cacia,
Producer: Richard Feldman

Awards

| 2004

| True Love

| Best Reggae Album

| Grammy

| {{won}}

| {{cite web |title=Past Winners: 2004: Reggae |url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=&year=2004&genre=29 |publisher=The Redording Academy |accessdate=11 July 2012}}

References

Category:Toots and the Maytals albums

Category:2004 albums

Category:V2 Records albums

Category:Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album