Premiere: Watch Skip Marley’s ‘Let’s Take It Higher’ Documentary By Boomshots Vibe 3/12/2021
Rastaman Vibration, released almost 45 years ago, in April 1976. In the years before
Legend, Bob Marley & the Wailers’ 1984 greatest hits collection, which remains the best-selling reggae album of all time,
Rastaman Vibration was the record that broke Marley to American audiences, becoming the first Marley LP to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
On the second track, “Roots Rock Reggae,” Marley took new listeners by the hand and introduced them to a new sound from the faraway island of Jamaica. “Play I some music,” Bob sang, and the I Threes Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths, and Judy Mowatt replied in unison, “This is reggae music.”