“Jailhouse” by Sublime

Sublime reached outside the band for "Jailhouse": the writing credit on this track from their 1996 self-titled album goes to Bob Marley, Neville Livingston and Clement "Coxsone" Dodd. Bradley Nowell sings and plays electric guitar, Eric Wilson is on bass, Bud Gaugh on drums and Marshall Goodman on percussion, with Paul Leary producing and mixing and Stuart Sullivan engineering.

It sits on a record that mixes punk, reggae and ska with dancehall, hip-hop and dub, their major-label debut for MCA, made over three hard-partying months in Austin, Texas, while Nowell battled heroin addiction. He died of an overdose in May 1996, two months before the album came out, and the band dissolved, yet the album had moved more than five million copies in America before the decade was out.

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