LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 10, 2019…FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO ERIC CLAPTON RECORDED THE SONG ‘I SHOT THE SHERIFF’. THE SONG WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AND RECORDED BY BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
IN 1973. CLAPTON HEARD IT WHEN HIS BAND MEMBERS BROUGHT MARLEY’S ALBUM TO CLAPTON TO GIVE IT A LISTEN, AND THEY HAD TO BEG HIM TO RECORD A VERSION OF THE SONG. THE SONG TURNED INTO ONE OF CLAPTON’S BIGGEST SOLO HITS, BECOMING THE ONLY SONG OF HIS SOLO CAREER TO HIT NUMBER ONE ON THE CHARTS. CLAPTON’S VERSION WAS ALSO THE BIGGEST SELLING VERSION OF THE SONG, AND IN 2003 WAS INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME.
THIS IS A FANTASTIC LIVE VERSION FROM CLAPTON FROM A TV APPEARANCE IN 1977
