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"Reggae is more freeform than the blues": Bob Marley and the Wailers' Catch a Fire, track-by-track
With Catch a Fire, the band known then as simply The Wailers, created a bridge between the deep roots sound of Jamaica and the commercial rock music of the international market, particularly the USA ...
Derrick Harriott bats 86
In the past three years, stories of Derrick Harriott’s death have circulated on social media. The singer/producer, who turns 86 today, laughed at the premature stories of his demise in an interview ...
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How Bob Marley’s feel-good reggae shaped sounds of North Africa
From the streets of Cairo and Tripoli to Morocco’s Sahel and Sudan's Nubian desert communities, Bob Marley’s musical legacy ...