MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Bob Marley Part cultural ambassador, part religious mystic and 100 percent musical genius, Bob Marley has become the face of reggae and of his Jamaican homeland for countless people worldwide. Nearly two decades after his untimely death at age 36, Marley's work is still responsible for introducing many listeners to the music and country he helped define. Born in 1945, Marley was raised by his mother in the slums of Kingston, but left home at age 14 to pursue a musical career. Before he turned 18, he'd formed the Wailers with singers Peter McIntosh (Tosh) and Bunny Livingstone (Wailer). A series of singles followed, but after getting married to singer Rita Anderson in 1966, Marley moved to America and worked for several months in a factory in Delaware. By year's end, he'd returned to Jamaica, where the Wailers regrouped and hooked up with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry; two members of Perry's band, The Upsetters -- bassist Aston "Family Man" Barrett and his drummer brother Carlton -- ended up joining the Wailers. Marley had already started his own label, Tuff Gong, but then Chris Blackwell, a white Jamaican, signed the Wailers to his Island Records. The band's debut, 1973's Catch A Fire, generated interest worldwide -- and especially in the UK. The follow-up, Burnin', featured "I Shot The Sheriff", a song Eric Clapton turned into a Top Ten hit in 1974. That year also saw Tosh and Bunny Wailer leave the band, and Marley replaced them with the I-Threes, a vocal trio that included his wife. Marley's first solo album, Natty Dread, became a worldwide hit on the strength of classics like "No Woman, No Cry"; the mellow, laid-back 1976 set Rastaman Vibration became Marley's biggest U.S. hit yet. But after Marley, his wife and his manager were wounded in a failed assassination attempt in December 1976, Marley left Jamaica for London to work on his 1977 album, appropriately entitled Exodus. It contained some of Marley's best-loved work, including "One Love" and "Jammin'". That year Marley also aggravated an old toe injury while playing soccer. Cancerous cells were discovered, but he refused to have the toe amputated. Yet as his health failed, Marley embarked on an ambitious three-album trilogy. Part one, Survival, was released in 1979, while Uprising, out the following year, included the hit "Could You Be Loved." Marley's health, however, continued to deteriorate, and collapsed during a U.S. tour while jogging in New York's Central Park. Doctors found that cancer had spread throughout Marley's body and brain, and he died in Miami in 1981. The final album of the trilogy, Confrontation, was released posthumously in 1983, but in death, Marley's star was to burn ever brighter. A greatest hits collection, Legend, became a huge seller, and some of Marley's children, like son Ziggy, have also become stars. In 1999, Chant Down Babylon, a collection of studio-created duets between Marley and current R&B stars like Lauryn Hill, was released.     Bob Marley Climb The Ladder LiquidAudio Reggae Step lively up this “Ladder,” a nugget of pure ska skankin’ from the early days of reggae’s ruler! Bob Marley Destiny MP3 Reggae Holy Smokes! This vintage Bob Marley recording from waaaaaaaay back is valuable for its historic significance in tracing the roots of reggae and ska, but musically it's too brassy, bizarre, and cartoon-ish to merit repeated listens. Only purists and the most hardcore fans need apply. Bob Marley Kinky Reggae (feat. The Marley Brothers & The Ghetto Youths Crew) LiquidAudio Reggae What becomes a legend most? Not this junk-funk trashing of one of Marley’s finest, that’s for sure. Bob Marley Rock Sweet Rock MP3 Reggae This wobbly demo from Bob Marley's early years reveals the unformed artist as an unspoiled diamond-in-the-rough. This is ska with a '50s doo-wop flair; a real treasure.
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