“Jammin'” by Bob Marley

"Jammin'" belongs to Exodus, the ninth studio album from Bob Marley and the Wailers, released on Island in June 1977 as the follow-up to Rastaman Vibration, and Marley wrote it alone, words and music. After an assassination attempt on 3 December 1976, in which he was shot in the arm, Marley left Jamaica for London, and that is where Exodus was recorded.

The album trades the band's earlier cryptic storytelling for plainer talk about change, religious politics and sexuality, over a laid-back production with a pulsing bass and plenty of piano, trumpet and guitar. It carried Marley to international stardom and got a remastered reissue in 2017 for its 40th anniversary; the greatest-hits set Legend draws more songs from it than from any other Marley album.

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