The Marleys
 

Although always a fan of Bobs, I have recently been introduced to Damian and Stephen, and I have to say. Hot damn these boys can make music their pappy would be proud of.

Welcome to Jamrock is a musical work of gritty earthiness. The flow and ebb of the album is going to put Jr. Gong on the world maps.

Welcome To Jamrock is a great track but there is more to Reggae than the name marley.

That was definitely a great album but if it was going to put him on world maps I would think it would've done so a couple years ago when it came out.

It's not just that track though, that whole album is great. If you haven't heard it, it's really worth a listen.

If you like Bob, then you'd like his son Ziggy. Ziggy is probably the only one that really resembles Bob in his music.

I have had the album a couple of years and really like some of it but there is some awful RnB tinged tunes that spoil it for me.

I like the whole album except for that song "Beautiful" with Bobby Brown which I agree is a giant slice of awful R&B tinged cheese. The only other song I don't particularly care for is "For the Babies" but only because the lyrics kind of annoy me. I think the rest of the album is great. The songs "Confrontation", "The Master Has Come Back", "All Night", "Move!", "In Too Deep" and of course "Welcome To Jamrock" are all real standout tracks for me.

All Night just makes we want to shake me booty :D

Yeah, that song's great.

I feel it is more of a grower album than an instant success.

I still need to grab a bunch of Ziggy and Julians music as well.

Prolificly talented clan...

That's exactly how I think of the album. I haven't listened to it for months, but from what I remember it's a great record that lets itself down in a few places.

As for the Marleys, I'm not their biggest fan, but they have done some great albums - Bob's Exodus and Damian's aforementioned Welcome To Jamrock for instance.

So far I've seen Ziggy, Stephen, Damien, and Julian. Ky-Mani was supposed to play a show at Reggae on the River, but that's a long story. I thought Damien put on the best show by far, especially when he brought Charlie Tuna out during his encore. Ziggy put on a very inspiring, fun-in-the-sun, and outright happy show. Stephen reminds me a lot of Bob footage that I've seen, though he the other three Marley's that I saw played at least a couple tunes of their father's. Julian was pretty jazzy and Damian just rocked it hot and heavy-style.

Ziggy's my second favorite Marley for sure. One Good Spliff...nuff said

I have recently been in a reggae phase and have been listing to a lot of Stephen Marley's Mind Control(acoustic version) He is my second favorite Marley next to Bob of course. Then I would say Ziggy and lastly Damien only because some of his stuff has to much of that rap/hip-hip mix.

Please do not post in all-caps anymore.

I saw Damien Marley headlining the Jazz world stage at Glasto a few years back now.

He really was excellent although I still hate myself for not finding the time to go and see the brothers performing exodus. Im pretty sure that would have been quite special.

One Love!!