Light Your Light
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| Light Your Light | ||||
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| Released | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Reggae | |||
| Label | Fantasy | |||
| Producer | Zadig, Toots Hibbert | |||
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Light Your Light is an album by the Jamaican band Toots and the Maytals, released in 2007.[1][2] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[3] The album coincided with Toots's 45th year as a recording musician.[4]
Light Your Light peaked at No. 9 on Billboard's Reggae Albums chart.[5] It was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the "Best Reggae Album" category.[6]
The album was produced by Zadig and Toots.[7] Toots duetted with Bonnie Raitt on "Premature".[8] Derek Trucks played guitar on "Johnny Coolman".[9] "Image Get a Lick" lambasts the music industry.[10] The paean to Jamaican producer Coxsone Dodd is followed by a cover of "Guns of Navarone".[11] "Pain in My Heart" is a cover of the Otis Redding song; "I Gotta Woman" is a version of the Ray Charles song.[12][13] "Celia" was written for a younger fan of the Maytals.[14]
