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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

11. Stephen MarleyMind Control

This is another song telling people to wake up. I don’t like the music that I can’t play in the car with children, that is really embarrassing. I want to teach and inspire them to be smarter than we were, so I try to expose them to better things than we were exposed to. And the reality is that mind control is out there if we don’t do better for them. Right now, people are looking up and they’re listening. With all happening in the world, it would be remiss for a guy to go singing about Hennessey and things like that because people really are looking up and listening now. They want to know ‘what are you saying, we have been there before and done that, what are you saying now?’ This is a beautiful song and good music is always good music. I always have a Stephen Marley in my playlist, too.

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