Bob Marley

Island Records and Tuff Gong have announced a soundtrack EP for the biographical drama Bob Marley: One Love. The EP features seven covers of popular Bob Marley songs inspired by the film and performed by artists such as Bloody Civilian, Skip Marley, Leon Bridges, Wizkid, Daniel Caesar and Jessie Reyez.

Island Records and Tuff Gong have announced a soundtrack EP for the biographical drama Bob Marley: One Love. The EP features seven covers of popular Bob Marley songs inspired by the film and performed by artists such as Bloody Civilian, Skip Marley, Leon Bridges, Wizkid, Daniel Caesar and Jessie Reyez.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers (also known as The Wailing Wailers, Bob Marley & the Wailers, and The Wailers) were a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley. It developed from the ska vocal group, The Teenagers, created by Marley with Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer in 1963.

Tuff Gong & Island Records will release the official soundtrack album for the biographical drama Bob Marley: One Love. The album features seventeen songs by the celebrated Jamaican singer/songwriter Bob Marley and his band The Wailers.

This interesting two-disc collection isn't exactly the "roots" of Bob Marley, since it consists of tracks recorded with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry between August 1970 and April 1971 and Marley had been working in and releasing material from Jamaican studios for some ten years by this time, and it isn't even a Marley anthology, really, because there are dozens of tracks here by the likes of Dave Barker, Johnny Lover, Big Youth, Perry's Upsetters, and Marley's fellow Wailers Bunny Livingston and Peter Tosh.

Uprising would be the final studio album featuring Bob Marley & the Wailers to be released during Marley's lifetime. Prophetically, it also contains some of the band's finest crafted material, as if they were cognizant that this would be their final outing. The album's blend of religious and secular themes likewise creates a very powerful and singular quest for spirituality in a material world. Although it is argued that an album's graphic design rarely captures the essence of the work inside, the powerful rebirthing image of a rock solid Marley emerging with his arms raised in triumph could not be a more accurate visual description of the musical jubilation within. Musically, the somewhat staid rhythms often synonymous with reggae have been completely turned around to include slinky and liquid syncopation. "Work," "Pimper's Paradise," and the lead-off track "Coming in From the Cold" are all significant variations on the lolloping Rasta beat.

Uprising would be the final studio album featuring Bob Marley & the Wailers to be released during Marley's lifetime. Prophetically, it also contains some of the band's finest crafted material, as if they were cognizant that this would be their final outing. The album's blend of religious and secular themes likewise creates a very powerful and singular quest for spirituality in a material world. Although it is argued that an album's graphic design rarely captures the essence of the work inside, the powerful rebirthing image of a rock solid Marley emerging with his arms raised in triumph could not be a more accurate visual description of the musical jubilation within. Musically, the somewhat staid rhythms often synonymous with reggae have been completely turned around to include slinky and liquid syncopation. "Work," "Pimper's Paradise," and the lead-off track "Coming in From the Cold" are all significant variations on the lolloping Rasta beat.

The Complete Bob Marley & The Wailers 1967-1972 is a series of three box sets for reggae legend Bob Marley. Released by JAD in conjunction with Koch International, the first two box sets consist of three discs each while the third and last volume is a 2 CD set, consisting of songs Marley did between 1967 and 1972 before he was signed to Island Records.

After the success of 1974's Natty Dread and 1976's Rastaman Vibration, Bob Marley was not only the most successful reggae musician in the world, he was one of the most powerful men in Jamaica.