| Light Your Light | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Toots and the Maytals |
| Cover: | Light Your Light.jpg |
| Released: | 2007 |
| Genre: | Reggae |
| Label: | Fantasy |
| Producer: | Zadig, Toots Hibbert |
| Prev Title: | The Essential Collection |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Reggae Legends |
| Next Year: | 2008 |
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 Billboards 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. Toots duetted with Bonnie Raitt on "Premature". Derek Trucks played guitar on "Johnny Coolman". "Image Get a Lick" lambasts the music industry. The paean to Jamaican producer Coxsone Dodd is followed by a cover of "Guns of Navarone".[7] "Pain in My Heart" is a cover of the Otis Redding song; "I Gotta Woman" is a version of the Ray Charles song.[8] [9] "Celia" was written for a younger fan of the Maytals.[10]
The Philadelphia Daily News deemed the album "reggae light." The Sunday Times wrote that Toots "stylishly combines an earthy reggae pulse with more of his delicious old-school R&B."[11] The Daily Mirror opined that "Image Get a Lick" "stands up alongside such classics as 'Monkey Man', 'Pressure Drop' and 'Reggae Got Soul'." The Independent noted that many songs are "delivered in light, acoustic-guitar-based, arrangements that showcase Toots's soulful vocals to maximum effect."[12] The Edmonton Sun stated that Toots displays "his soulful delivery and Otis-inspired pipes on an upbeat slate of poppy, melodic reggae." The Gazette concluded that Toots's "voice is raspy, warm and golden, and the songs are strong, as is the production—never a given with old-timer acts." The McClatchy-Tribune Business News listed Light Your Light as the 9th best album of 2007.[13]