![]() The Original Wailers are also a band in their own right, founded by Anderson and Junior Marvin in 2008, Their debut album ‘Miracle’, received a Grammy nomination in 2013. Eddy George, “Can you really call it ‘The Wailers’ without the Barrett brothers?”.Īshton ‘Family Man’ Barrett is incidentally still performing under a separate Wailers Band project. This was on paper disappointing, in the words of Dr. The five piece group consisted of only one member of The Wailers, the American guitarist and song writer Al Anderson who had written ‘No Woman No Cry’ and ‘Three O’clock Road Block’. However, Bob Marley and the Wailers were an iconic group and in tribute to my Bob Marley Phase I decided to check it out. Not that the I felt that the music had turned bad, it was just that Bob Marley represented the mainstream face of the music and was too obvious to play out. ![]() Bob Marley stopped cutting it for me after I had gotten into Roots and no reggae gig can compare to Jah Shaka dance. Now in 2019 and aged 30, I was in two minds about going to see The Original Wailers at Jazz Café. ‘The Sun is Shining’ and ‘Mr Brown’ produced by Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry being favourite tracks of mine and the only Bob Marley tracks I could play in front of my Dub friends.īob Marley is also considered to be an early pioneer of Roots with the track ‘Selassie is in the Chapel’, considered to be the first Rastafarian record. The ghost of Bob Marley haunted me during my journey into Dub. The greatest hits album ‘Legend’ was a feature of my childhood with ‘Stir it Up’ and ‘Baby we Got a Date’ being stand out tracks.Įmbarrassing to say it now but the Funkstar deluxe remix of ‘Sun is Shining’ was a favourite, it was played everywhere in the 90s and was my intro into dance music. It is easy to forget how much of a political icon Bob Marley was to children of the 70s. My mum’s interested in Michael Jackson was mirrored by my dad’s fandom of Bob Marley and his constant preaching for me and my brother to be like Bob Marley and never give up. Of course, the music was always around me growing up. I came to the phase through certain tracks being played by warm up DJs during Hip Hop gigs, ‘Get Up stand Up’ being a tune in point. It’s 2013, I am aged 24 and in the midst of my Bob Marley phase, an apparently common phase among men in their early twenties.
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