A listener letter leads Brian and Phil Medley into a deep dive on the emergence of island music into the mainstream – and finding the one guy whose passion and vision is mostly to thank for rock and reggae finding common ground.
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Songs used in this episode: Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come, Bob Marley – Concrete Jungle, Paul McCartney – C Moon, Led Zeppelin – D’yer Maker
How I Met Your Mother reggae joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P_a4oiGlIA
RGH Daville cover of My Immortal: https://soundcloud.com/user-678212299/rgh-daville-my-immortal
https://www.liveabout.com/difference-between-ska-and-reggae-3552831#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Blackwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spencer_Davis_Group
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20220709/chris-blackwell-publishes-memoir
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/jimmy-cliff-i-don-t-reach-my-peak-yet-1.4643891
https://consequence.net/2012/07/interview-jimmy-cliff/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shot_the_Sheriff
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/eric-clapton-admitted-didnt-get-i-shot-sheriff.html/
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/story-behind-the-led-zeppelins-song-dyer-maker-joke/
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