Got To Be Tough

Toots And The Maytals • 10 songs • 40 min

Got to Be Tough is a studio album by Jamaican reggae band Toots and the Maytals. It was released through Trojan Jamaica/BMG on 28 August 2020 and financed by Trojan Jamaica owner Zak Starkey, who also played guitar for the recording. The album is the first studio release from Toots and the Maytals in more than a decade and the first after an accident wherein bandleader Toots Hibbert was hit in the head with a glass bottle, leading to his hiatus from performing. The lyrical content of the album is political, featuring pleas for unity among people. Got to Be Tough was the band's final studio release before Hibbert's death on 11 September 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. After his death, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_to_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)