Dawes’ deep dive into Marley lyrics spurred by lifelong love, Jamaican connections
University of Nebraska-LincolnVictorious over the many booby traps that guarded his older brother’s bedroom, a 17-year-old Kwame Dawes perched on the edge of his sibling’s neatly made bed and relaxed as the rhythms of a new Bob Marley and the Wailers album flowed from the record player.