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Redemption Song is not one of the very popular Marley tunes, as far as my experience goes -- not among non-Jamaicans.
It's one of the songs that, in my experience, every single person who ever picked up a guitar learns the opening riff to. So it seems to me as if every one knows it. But I might just hang with a Reggae loving crowd.
I had never heard the song before. The one brief time when I tried to learn to play guitar, Bob Marley was not among my practice pieces. (If he had been, I might have stuck with it, though.)
The Middle Passage. Note Mozambique on the east coast.
Okay, thanks. So all the Middle Passage routes are westward from Africa to the Americas. I think I misread your comment as saying that the ship was travelling a Middle Passage route, when in fact you were saying the opposite. I'm still wondering why a ship would have gone east from Mozambique and ended up east of Australia in the South Pacific, but I'll just wave my hands and mutter about being blown wildly off-course, and let it go.
For dating it -- I'm assuming that if you know ships, it's like a car model or airplane style.
Gotcha. I can honestly say that never would have occurred to me! Signed, knows not a damn thing about car or airplane models.
Re: "Redemption Song", my experience has been -t's; seems like everyone knows that song. On the other hand, I went to a hippie college and then travelled the hippie backpacker route (and now live in a hippie-esque college town where bumper stickers that read "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds" are abundant), so my sample population might not be so broadly representative.
who does not know Bob Marley?
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I mean, I know who he is. But I couldn't identify a single one of his songs.
I mean, I know who he is. But I couldn't identify a single one of his songs.
Kalshane: Not A Hippy Backpacker
'Redemption Song' came up on my iPod on the way home, actually. Freaky.
Apropos of nothing wrt popularity, 'Redemption Song' was covered by Joe Strummer on his last album.
Very well, I should add.
Actually, Redemption Song is the only song of Bob Marley I can positively identify. Other songs, maybe I'd recognize the voice after a little while, but I can't name any Bob Marley songs but that one off the top of my head. Oh wait, there was that "Stand up for your rights" song. So, two.
(I am a little more familiar with Ziggy Marley, but in that way where I hear anything that sounds like post-70s reggae and I say, "Oh, that must be Ziggy Marley." We had a tape of his music, when I was a kid.)
Not to expose my ignorance thoroughly.
My perception is that most of the songs from Legend are pretty widely known.
I could identify most Marley songs that get radio play, but I think Michael was surprised Sawyer chose to sing that song, not just that he knew it.