We Know Where We're Going: Bob Marley & the Wailers pt.2

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture

LITM returns with the second half of our examination of the life and work of Bob Marley and the Wailers. Jeremy and Tim pick up the story in 1973, with the release of Burnin', the band's split, and the launch of Marley in the rock star mode. A discussion on the strange case of Eric Clapton's cover of I Shot the Sheriff follows, along with Marley's first international smash, No Woman, No Cry.

Tim and Jeremy proceed to the release of Exodus in 1977 - also the year of an assassination attempt on Marley - and dig into the politics of a turbulant late '70s Jamaica, the Socialist PM Michael Manley, and the complexities of Marley's own political appeal to love and peace in the face of extreme political violence. The episode concludes with the singer's cancer diagnosis, a late return to explicit radical anti-colonialism, and eventual death in 1981, with time given to parsing his singular posthumous legacy.
Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert are authors, academics, DJs and audiophile dance party organisers. They’ve been friends and collaborators since 1997, teaching together and running parties since 2003. With clubs closed and half their jobs lost to university cuts, they’re inevitably launching a podcast.

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley.
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Tracklist:

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Burnin' and Lootin'
Bob Marley & the Wailers - I Shot the Sheriff
Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff
Bob Marley & the Wailers - No Woman, No Cry
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Waiting in Vain
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Redemption Song

Books:

Lloyd Bradley - Bass Culture: When Reggae was King
Dick Hebdidge - Subcultures