Record Company- Polydor
Catalog Number- 000363836
Date of Publication- 1972
At this point I am going back into time a little bit with the Eric Clapton version of the great Bob Marley song, "I Shot the Sheriff." From the time that reggae hit the shores of America there were a great number of American artists who began to cover many of the reggae classics. Eric Clapton, widely recognized as one of the greatest guitar players to play, covered the Bob Marley song and again put reggae music back into the American music scene. The Clapton version of the song doesn't have many of the melodies and tendencies made popular by reggae music, but for such a famous and well known musician to cover a reggae song just as the genre was picking up steam, it made known that reggae music was in America and there to stay.
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