Bob marley & Martha Velez - The Martha Velez Rehearsal
1975/05/xx
Negril?, Kingston?, JA
?>EAC>FLAC



1, If You Wanna Be Loved
2, There You Are (Stand Alone)
3, If You Wanna Be Loved
4, Bob talk/sings
If You Wanna Be Loved

total, 31:48


Received this years ago from RKL/chunga1 as a 1-file FLAC and only just tracked it. Intimate session from Martha and Bob playing together, with the highlight There You Are, a retitle from The Wailer's great Stand Alone. Martha Would release her album Escape From Babylon, co-produced by Marley and Scratch, in 1976. In this rehearsal Bob plays on his guitar, sings along, talks now and then and if you listen well you hear a dog bark outside and matches that are used to light a spliff.

at the below link you can find a nice interview that BMM's Marco Virgona had with Martha:
http://www.bobmarleymagazine.com/forum_bmwm/showthread.php?t=1169

... Martha: "One of my favorite stories is when we - Bob, the Wailers, Peter Tosh and I - drove out to Negril, Jamaica, to rehearse and write for the Babylon album. We were driving and singing. All of a sudden, a torrential thunderstorm came down, the way they do in the tropics, full and noisy and merciless. The car started to turn off the road. I think Sico was driving. We swerved in 360 degree circles, 1, 2, 3, 4 circles around...the car wouldn't stop and Sico could not get control...everyone was screaming or holding their breath, but not Bob...Bob just laughed all the while...and called to Jah. Then the car just stopped in a big mud puddle, we all got out and pushed...Bob Marley, music icon, pushing a car out of the mud and singing, always singing, and laughing, always laughing. He was a beautiful soul. Called me Sister and that was the greatest honor of all." ...


One Love!



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