9/11 slows down ‘Half-Way Tree’
9/11 slows down ‘Half-Way Tree’
Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley’s 2005 Welcome to Jamrock has been so successful that, to some extent, it has eclipsed the success of his 2001 album Half-Way Tree.
That album, which had Marley narrating to position himself at the mid-point of Jamaican society, not only sold gold (over 500,000 copies) worldwide, but also earned him a Grammy award in the reggae category. Among the more popular songs was It Was Written, a song of confidence in spiritual life eternal (“They may kill you once, but they can’t kill you twice/Did you know destruction of the flesh is not the ending to life.”) performed by Marley brothers Damian and Stephen, with Capleton as the incendiary deejay.