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Rastafarian.....Rastafarian
Laguna boy sure can play, he play like he know the way |
Peter Cross is the songwriter, the singer, the arranger, and the producer.
Commentary:
Oh my, another song about Mary Jane and the Rastas! Do you know what a Rastafarian is? A Rastafarian is
a member of an Afro-Christian revivalist cult which was formed in Jamaica in the early 1920s. Rastafarians believed that
the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was God incarnate (I don't), but they also believe in the sacred herb (I do). I
first heard reggae music in N.Y.C. and I took off for Jamaica to meet the people making this music that was so compelling
and so unique. I got spooked by the cops in Port Antonio after purchasing something, had to immediately split and I ended
up in Negril where I met Jamaica Dandy who took me up into the
Blue Mountains to meet the Rastafarians. And after being inducted by the Rastafarians into their religion, he took
me down to Kingston to meet Bob Marley, who of course completely blew me away with his awesome songwriting, singing,
playing and performing talent. To this day, I have never stopped appreciating the talent of Bob Marley, a man with
many serious messages.
This song was actually written on a one hour plane flight from San Francisco to Los
Angeles when I was on my way to record basic tracks for The Wetter the Better. I was hearing the music in my mind and it
sounded to me like a Bob Marley song, but I didn't recognize it. For a moment, I actually sat there and pondered what
Marley album this song could possibly have come from, and then like a spaced out loony who can't even recognize his
own voice, I laughed out loud and realized it was another one of my own songs creating itself right there on the plane!
Music, lyrics, text, and web page design copyright 1996 © Peter Cross
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