Trenchtown Rock
Artists
Bob Marley and the WailersAlbum
Live!
Label
Island RecordsGenres
ReggaeRelease Date
December 5, 1975Trenchtown is a poor area in Kingston, Jamaica where Marley grew up. After a hurricane destroyed many of the homes there in 1951, a new settlement formed around a dump site. It was a difficult way of life, and Marley wrote this about how music was an escape from the poverty and desperation of Trenchtown.