The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
~Bob MarleySome people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
~Bob Marley“Marley wasn’t singing about how peace could come easily to the World but rather how hell on Earth comes too easily to too many.”
~Mikal Gilmore (Rolling Stone Magazine)
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In the end, however, Bob Marley leaves us with a stark testament: “Redemption Song,” which he sings solo, accompanied only by his acoustic guitar. As the artist performs this folk ballad (with its aching cry of “Won’t you help to sing, these songs of freedom/’Cause all I ever had, redemption songs,” so reminiscent of the young Bob Dylan), one feels a man reaching out and grappling with the dreadful possibilities of liberation and disaster. Such a tour de force, like much of Uprising, is as moving as it is deeply troubling.
-Chris Morris (rollingstone.com)
| Released | 10 June 1980 |
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| Recorded | January–April 1980 |
| Studio | Tuff Gong Studios, Kingston, Jamaica |
| Genre | Reggae |
| Length | 35:53 |
| Label | Tuff Gong/Island |
| Producer | Chris Blackwell, Bob Marley |
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