Redemption song
Redemption Song ( Engl. For "Redemption Song") is the last piece on Bob Marley's ninth music album, Uprising . By the time he wrote the piece around 1979, Marley had already been diagnosed with cancer, from which he died in 1981. According to his wife Rita Marley, Marley was already suffering from severe pain in 1979, but without disclosing it, and was preoccupied with his own mortality. This is evident throughout the album, especially this track.
The piece of music
Marley became world famous as a pioneer of reggae music from Jamaica . The piece Redemption Song , however, belongs to folk music . In contrast to most of his other pieces of music, Redemption Song was recorded as a solo, with Marley singing alone and accompanying himself with an acoustic guitar. On the reissue of Uprising from 2001 and on the compilation One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers , the Redemption Song was released as a bonus track in a band version. However, the solo version is best known to most listeners.
As with most of his pieces, the Redemption Song also expresses Marley's religious belief as a Rastafarian . Marley also urges you to free yourself from self-imposed constraints.
In 2004 the Redemption Song was voted 66th of the 500 most important songs by Rolling Stone magazine.
Cover versions
The song was interpreted by a large group of very different artists. These include: Johnny Cash , Rihanna , Manfred Mann's Earth Band , Jackson Browne , Outlandish , Lauryn Hill , Arrested Development , U2 , Cast , Fury in the Slaughterhouse , Joe Strummer , Sinéad O'Connor , Attaque 77 in Spanish, Life of Agony , Stevie Wonder , Dave Matthews Band , Majek Fashek , Christy Moore , Ian Brown , Pearl Jam , Ben Harper , Keller Williams , Sweet Honey in the Rock , No Use for a Name , Chris Cornell , Amparanoia , Hapa , Marley's son Ziggy (together with the Irish band The Chieftains ), Moodswings with Tanita Tikaram (a mixture with the spiritual " Oh Happy Day "), Ms. Dynamite , Napoleon Dynamite and Annie Lennox , she performed this version in Edinburgh at the Live 8 event.
- At the America: A Tribute to Heroes concert , which was performed following the events of September 11, 2001 , Wyclef Jean sang the song wrapped in an American flag.
- One of the most idiosyncratic interpretations is that of the Jewish preacher "Mi Chamocha", who speaks of the expulsion of the Jews from Egypt while the music of the Redemption Song accompanies him.
- James "Sawyer" Ford sang the song in the first season of the television series Lost .
- Joe Strummer , co-founder of the band The Clash , plays a version in the outro of the concert released on DVD by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on August 23, 2003 (Live At Slane Castle) .
- In late 2006, singer Pink sang the song live in Europe on her I'm Not Dead tour .
- The Redemption Song was performed live by Irish songwriter Gary Og .
- On some of his 2007 shows, Jimmy Buffett played the Redemption song along with his own songs, A Pirate Looks at Forty, as part of a medley.
- Spanish singer Enrique Bunbury recorded a Spanish version of the song which he called 'Redencion'. This B version was recorded with his band 'Los Chulis' and presented on the band's homepage.
- Speech interpreted the song for the IMAX film 'Michael Jordan to the Max'.
- After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, singer Justin Timberlake rearranged the song for Rihanna . She had already sung the song in 2006 on her Rihanna: Live in Concert tour .
- Youssou N'Dour played the song together with Tyrone Downie , the former keyboardist of 'Bob Marley And The Wailing Wailers', at the Africa Festival 2010 in Würzburg.
- After both Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer recorded multiple versions of the song, they recorded it as a duet in 2002. Both artists died shortly afterwards, their song was released posthumously on Johnny Cash's boxing set Unearthed .
- In 2014 Gentleman recorded a live version of the Redemption song as part of his MTV Unplugged: Gentleman Tour in Cologne. He sang in front of a small audience with Ky-Mani Marley , Bob Marley's son, and Campino , the front man of the Toten Hosen .
- Eddie Vedder and Beyoncé sang the song together at the Global Citizen Festival in New York on September 26, 2015.
use
The title Redemption Song has been used widely, particularly in the Afro-American context. For example, both Mike Marquese's book on Mohammed Ali and Bertice Berry's book on a bookseller of African American literature were called Redemption Song . A biography of Joe Strummer is also entitled Redemption Song . The reggae band Toots & the Maytals released a song called Redemption Song as early as 1973 on their album Funky Kingston .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bob Marley The Father of Music in Google Book Search
- ↑ Eddie Vedder & Beyoncé - Redemption Song (Legendado). In: YouTube. March 21, 2017, accessed August 1, 2019 .