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Bob Marley, Concrete Jungle
I’ve never heard anyone but Bob Marley refer to the sun as the “high yellow moon.” Fantastic poetry. “Concrete Jungle,” from Catch a Fire, is one of the bleakest songs about urban dystopia you will ever hear. It was the lead-off track from Bob’s 1973 masterpiece, Catch a Fire, and is an incredible piece of…
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Bob Marley, Duppy Conqueror, Rare Studio Take
We’re back in the 1974 Catch a Fire sessions as Bob Marley and the Wailers cut a fifth version of “Duppy Conqueror.” What is a “duppy,” and why is Bob conquering them? Interesting question. Well, in Jamaica, duppy is slang for ghost, and Bob was thinking about opening up a Jamaican branch of the Ghostbusters. …
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Bob Marley, Get Up Stand Up, Rare Studio Take
Some very generous youtube benefactors recently uploaded over 30 videos of Bob Marley in the studio recording tracks for his Catch a Fire record. The video below is a priceless take from the sessions of “Get Up Stand Up,” Bob’s most righteous moment in his career. This version is a hard slow funky jam of…