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 award for Best Reggae Album at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards.
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.
#NameFeatured guest(s)Time1"Still Is Still Moving to Me"Willie Nelson3:112"True Love Is Hard to Find"Bonnie Raitt4:273"Pressure Drop"Eric Clapton2:574"Time Tough"Ryan Adams3:235"Bam Bam"Shaggy and Rahzel3:466"54-46 Was My Number"Jeff Beck 4:407"Monkey Man"No Doubt3:398"Sweet and Dandy"Trey Anastasio3:179"Funky Kingston"Bootsy Collins and The Roots4:0610"Reggae Got Soul"Ken Boothe and Marcia Griffiths2:5811"Never Grow Old" Terry Hall, The Skatalites and U-Roy3:2712"Take a Trip"Bunny Wailer3:5713"Love Gonna Walk Out on Me"Ben Harper3:3314"Careless Ethiopians"Keith Richards3:2015"Blame on Me"Rachael Yamagata3:5716"Merry Blues"Manu Chao3:4917"Reggae Got Soul"Gentleman2:54
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
Production Engineers/mixers: Richard Feldman, Rudolph Valentino, Tom Weir, Ted Paduck Executive Senior Producer Mike Cacia, Producer: Richard Feldman
Awards
| 2005 | True Love | Best Reggae Album | Grammy
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