After seeing Stephen Marley perform at a Reggae festival in 2007, I went out and bought this album. Tracks 1, 2, 4, and 8 are my favorites, but the entire album is impressive (I didn't upload the talking interludes). Each track is unique from the next. I mean, lets be honest with our-music snob-selves, most reggae sounds pretty similar, but this album adds new melodies and instruments to traditional reggae. It has been in constant rotation in my CD player for years.
A little background on Stephen: He is the fourth son of Bob Marley (who's Wikipedia page I highly recommend checking out again). Until he came out this album, he spent most of his career producing and collaborating on the albums being released by his other brothers, Ziggy, the oldest Marley brother, and Damien, the youngest and most hip/hop. I read that Stephen greatly contributed to Damien's "Welcome to Jamrock" album--another seriously good album that you should check out if you dig this.
Last week, Stephen released his second album, Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life. I've liked what Ive heard so far, so I included the first single in the Dropbox folder. Its called "No Cigarette Smoking in My Room".
So light it up and take a puff and enjoy the Mind Control....
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I really liked this album. I forgot to comment on it earlier.
Especially after Burning Spear, it was so cool to hear the transition from then to now.
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