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There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. --Bob Marley...
There is something mystical about the man and his music. Before Bob Marley, reggae was an island; after Marley, reggae was global. And almost 20 years after his death, Marley's influence is still growing. A dance remix of his hit Sun Is Shining is the No. 1 song in U.S. clubs. Next month an all-star tribute to Marley will be held in Oracabessa Bay, Jamaica, featuring performers ranging from Sarah McLachlan to Busta Rhymes (it will air on TNT Dec. 19). And next month Bob Marley: Soul Rebel (Thunder's Mouth; 144 pages; $22.95), by former Billboard reporter...
...Bob Marley restaurant? Strange. But listen to the music. "There's a natural mystic blowing through...
...with dead ones can and should inspire a bit of terror in music fans; such endeavors leave artists we love posthumously vulnerable to pairings with Celine Dion. Fortunately, the matches on Chant Down Babylon, smartly managed by Stephen Marley, are both engaging and respectful. One standout: Lauryn Hill and Bob, sharing laughs and warmth across decades on Turn Your Lights Down Low. "It didn't feel as if I was recording with someone who wasn't there," says Hill, who has two children by Rohan Marley, one of Bob's sons. "It felt very contemporary." Stephen says during the recording...
...airplane. You just have to get in line and wait till it gets where it's going. Beck answers in digressive monologues that so completely exhaust a question that, by the end, you almost forget what the question was. Ask him about the comparisons his music has drawn to Bob Dylan's, and he replies, "I never really identified with him as a person... His art and music, they're undeniable, but... I'm probably more influenced by Leonard Cohen and Ramblin' Jack Elliott and other folk people than Dylan. I guess to me he is so realized in himself...