Bob Marley Instagram – MARLEY’S GREAT TRIBULATION Check out this scathing 1977 album review of EXODUS by @rollingstone magazine music critic. 🤨 See excerpts here: “There is a contradiction here between the enormous abilities of the Wailers – particularly the magnificent rhythm section of Aston Barrett, bass and Carlton Barrett, drums and the spidery lead guitar of Julian ‘Junior’ Marvin – and the flatness of the material Bob Marley has given them to work with.” “There are some well-crafted lines here, but given Marley’s singing, they don’t come across.” “Exodus doesn’t reach these heights, nor does it seem to aim for them.” “On the second side, the album falls apart.” “If I didn’t have more faith in Marley, I’d think he was trying to go disco.” “What bothers me is that I have the feeling that Marley, likely pressed by his label to continue the search for an American break-through without losing his original base in Jamaica and England, does not know (who this album is made for) either.” The album went gold anyway later that year because the people loved it and in 1999 it was named Album of the Century . ☝🏾❤️ Watch the making of Exodus in the #BobMarley: @OneLoveMovie showing at theatres everywhere. JAH