{"id":2445413,"date":"2019-06-17T09:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=848949"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:39:02","slug":"watch-toots-and-the-maytals-cover-fleetwood-macs-lovesick-blues-man-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-toots-and-the-maytals-cover-fleetwood-macs-lovesick-blues-man-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Toots and the Maytals Cover Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Lovesick Blues \u2018Man of the World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/toots-and-the-maytals-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Toots and the Maytals transformed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fleetwood-mac\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fleetwood-mac\" data-tag=\"fleetwood-mac\">Fleetwood Mac<\/a>\u2019s 1969 tune \u201cMan of the World\u201d into an aching reggae ballad for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/zak-starkey-black-uhuru-trojan-jamaica-812956\/\">upcoming compilation<\/a>, <em>Red, Gold, Green and Blue<\/em>, out July 12th via Trojan Jamaica. The cover arrives with a video featuring live footage and clips of Toots and the Maytals recording \u201cMan of the World\u201d in the studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Written by Peter Green and released in the pre-Stevie Nicks\/Lindsey Buckingham days of Fleetwood Mac, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OJWOtL-PZiE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201cMan of the World,\u201d<\/a> is a slow, electric blues number about a world-weary man unable to find love. On their version, Toots and the Maytals kick up the tempo and anchor the track with a fresh, rocksteady groove. Frontman Toots Hibbert delivers a vocal performance that captures all of Green\u2019s anguish, especially in the way he wails the song\u2019s final line, \u201cAnd how I wish I was in love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Toots and the Maytals\u2019 cover of \u201cMan of the World\u201d is one of 13 tracks that will appear on <em>Red, Gold, Green and Blue<\/em>, a compilation that features reggae artists covering classic American soul, R&amp;B and blues tunes. Previously released offerings include Mykal Rose\u2019s rendition of Screamin\u2019 Jay Hawkins\u2019 \u201cI Put a Spell On You\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-youth-gunslinger-trojan-jamaica-834572\/\">Big Youth\u2019s version<\/a> of Bo Diddley\u2019s \u201cGunslinger.\u201d <em>Red, Gold, Green and Blue<\/em> marks the first offering from Trojan Jamaica, which was founded by Zak Starkey \u2014 musician and son of Ringo Starr \u2014 and his Sshh bandmate Sharna \u201cSshh\u201d Liguz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As for Toots and the Maytals, the group recently kicked off a lengthy summer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tootsandthemaytals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tour<\/a>, which continues tomorrow June 18th in Brooklyn, New York. The run wraps September 15th with a set at the Kaaboom festival in Del Mar, California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/toots-and-the-maytals-cover-fleetwood-macs-man-of-the-world-848949\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toots and the Maytals transformed Fleetwood Mac\u2019s 1969 tune \u201cMan of the World\u201d into an aching reggae ballad for the upcoming compilation, Red, Gold, Green and Blue, out July 12th via Trojan Jamaica. The cover arrives with a video featuring live footage and clips of Toots and the Maytals recording \u201cMan of the World\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 01:23:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}