Jamming

In Jamaican patois, jamming means a getting together or celebration, and the song urges Rastafarians to unite. Its lines include "No bullet could stop us now." Marley wrote it in Nassau after the attack of 3 December 1976, in which he, his wife Rita and his manager Don Taylor were shot, and recorded it at Island's studio in London in early 1977. It also holds romantic lines about a love that is hard to resist.

Punky Reggae Party was the B-side of the single. Stevie Wonder wrote Master Blaster (Jammin') as a tribute, with lyrics inspired by the song.

Live

The band played it at the Rainbow Theatre in London in June 1977 at the end of the Exodus tour, at the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston on 22 April 1978, where Marley joined the hands of the rival politicians Michael Manley and Edward Seaga, and at the Boston Music Hall in June 1978. It closes Babylon by Bus, with the audience in a frenzy.