Marley's guitarist played reggae guitar
on
Jah work (
The Will To Live, 1997) —
"He played with a 12-string Guild and a Gibson sunburst
LG-2". He also played guitar on the break in
Faded.
"I Want to Be Ready" - Ben Harper Plays
in Praise of Jah
Jas Obrecht - September 1997 -
www.guitarplayer.com
Guitar Player : Did you play the nylon-string break in
Faded?
Ben Harper : "That's Al Anderson, Marley's guitarist
from
Natty Dread on. He's also on
Jah Work,
playing a small-bodied Guild 12-string and a sunburst Gibson
HG-2. He's a wealth of reggae music knowledge. He took it
another step from Ernest Ranglin and brought blues into
reggae. I don't play skank. I don't play reggae guitar.
Al had been coming to shows, and I thought, "Who better
to play on
Jah Work than Bob Marley's guitar player?"
He heard the song once, went in and dropped it. He's a genius.
And while he played that blues breakdown on
Faded
on a $90 nylon-string Prelude, I played a Turkish saz that
sounds like a 12-string."