Interview 1: JOHN HIATT: Let's talk about the Melody Makers--working with your family. You work with two sisters--Cedella and-- ZIGGY MARLEY: Cedella and Sharon. JOHN HIATT: And your brother, Stephen. ZIGGY MARLEY: Stephen, yeah. JOHN HIATT: Now, I saw some other Marley names on a couple of cuts--are those-- ZIGGY MARLEY: Those are my brothers. Brothers Julian and Damian. JOHN HIATT: Okay. ZIGGY MARLEY: Who have their own thing going on, so-- JOHN HIATT: Oh, they do? ZIGGY MARLEY: Yeah, man. JOHN HIATT: And they sang on a couple of tunes on the new record? ZIGGY MARLEY: Yeah. JOHN HIATT: But Sharon and Stephen and Cedella are on the road with you? ZIGGY MARLEY: Yeah. I mean, we started because when we were kids we used to play at home. We used to have an old piano. We used to jam all the time--just make up stuff. JOHN HIATT: You started playing young? ZIGGY MARLEY: Yeah, man. JOHN HIATT: Yes. ZIGGY MARLEY: We just started out jamming all the time, us kids. We used to put on concerts in our home and like let the family pay to come to the concert. That's what we used to do. Yeah, man. And we used to advertise it in the kitchen, you know. "Tonight at 8 p.m." That's true. So, you know, we started out-- In 1979 we did our first song, which was "Children Playing in the Streets," which was written by our father. And he played on that song. He played guitar on that song. And from that we just kept going and going, you know. So it's right here, right now. We're not going to stop either, you know? JOHN HIATT: Can't stop. ZIGGY MARLEY: No. Interview 2: JOHN HIATT: I read something about you felt like the songs are sort of being presented more like they are when you first write them. ZIGGY MARLEY: Yeah. Because what happens a lot of times, like, when we write songs we don't think about what type of music or whatever form or what. You write songs, you write them free. I don't think about reggae, I don't think about rock, I don't think about pop. I just write the songs and let the feelings come as what it is, you know. So this is what we try to recapture on this album--try to get that urgent feeling because a lot of the times when we write a song like I'm playing a riff on the guitar, you hear that riff you're not going to think about reggae. It's probably going to sound like something that's got--that's the way we would do it. It's like folk. That's the same way my father-- Because my style of playing the guitar I get from my father's style, you know what I mean? So that's the same way he wrote his songs. A lot of his songs were just strumming the guitar like folk. JOHN HIATT: Yeah, folk music. ZIGGY MARLEY: And singing. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's the way I was brought up in it and we just try to recapture that original essence because that is the most powerful feeling you get from music in that original state of like when it's just been born. That's the most feeling you get from the music, you know.
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