Redemption Song

Island, under Universal. The chain is named. So is the work of getting loose.

Island released it, with Tuff Gong. Universal holds Island. Marley is dying in this song and he does not spend the last of his voice on a party. He spends it on the question of who is still mental enslaved, including the listener.

This is one of the few popular records that treats freedom as a task. Play it when the house is tempted to call comfort the same thing as liberty.

The eight

Industry
7/10
One voice, one guitar. Nothing extra to hide behind.
Household
6/10
He sings toward people who still have to live after the fight.
Piety
8/10
Redemption is the word he chose, and he does not water it down.
Courage
8/10
He had already paid. He still asks others to stand up.
Republic
8/10
Slavery, old and new. A duty to a people, not a mood.
Temperance
7/10
No haze. The song is sober on purpose.
Truth
9/10
He will not call bondage by a softer name.
Stewardship
9/10
A song a house can hand a child when the world says stay down.

Live historicallyPlay it once, then ask who in this house is still waiting for someone else to free them.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1970

Columbia · Sony Music Entertainment

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Columbia, under Sony. The promise is presence. Not advice. Presence.

Columbia released it. Sony holds Columbia. The record is a person telling another person: when you are finished, I will still be the thing you can cross on. That is friendship at the size of a vow.

A house can wear this out and it will not go thin. If you play it, be prepared to be the bridge, not only the listener.

The eight

Industry
9/10
The vocal is a cathedral built out of one friendship.
Household
8/10
Someone is down. The singer does not leave the room.
Piety
7/10
Lay your head. It is close to a psalm, and it earns the nearness.
Courage
7/10
He offers to be used up.
Republic
6/10
A private mercy that a whole hall can recognize.
Temperance
8/10
No spectacle past the swell the promise needs.
Truth
8/10
He does not pretend the water is shallow.
Stewardship
9/10
Still what you sing when someone you love is not all right.

Live historicallyThe next time someone in the house is in the water, put this on, and then do the practical thing the song is describing.