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Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae band created by Bob Marley. The band formed when self-taught musician Hubert Winston McIntosh (Peter Tosh) met Neville Livingston (Bunny Wailer), and Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley) in 1963 and taught them how to play guitar, keyboards, and percussion. By late 1963 Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith had joined the Wailers. After Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the band in 1974, Bob Marley began touring with new band members. His new backing band included brothers Carlton Barrett and Aston "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on percussion. The "I Threes", consisting of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, and Marley's wife, Rita, provided backing vocals.
Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
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Bob Marley | 1963–1981 (until his death) |
| all releases | |
Peter Tosh | 1963–1974 (died 1987) |
| all releases from The Wailing Wailers (1965) until Burnin' (1973) | |
Bunny Wailer | 1963–1974 (died 2021) |
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Junior Braithwaite | 1963–1964 (died 1999) | vocals | The Wailing Wailers (1965) | |
Cherry Smith |
| backing vocals | ||
Beverley Kelso | 1964–1965 | |||
Constantine Walker | 1966 | none | ||
Aston Barrett | 1970–1981 (died 2024) |
| all releases from Soul Rebels (1970) until Confrontation (1983) | |
Carlton Barrett | 1970–1981 (died 1987) |
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Earl Lindo |
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Tyrone Downie | 1974–1981 (died 2022) |
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Rita Marley | 1974–1981 | backing vocals |
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Marcia Griffiths | ||||
Judy Mowatt | all releases from Natty Dread (1974) until Confrontation (1983) | |||
Al Anderson |
| lead and rhythm guitar |
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Alvin Patterson | 1975–1981 (died 2021) | percussion |
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Earl "Chinna" Smith | 1975–1976 |
| Rastaman Vibration (1976) | |
Donald Kinsey | 1975–1976 (died 2024) |
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Junior Marvin | 1977–1981 | all releases from Exodus (1977) until Confrontation (1983) |
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Joe Higgs | 1973 |
| none | |
Lee Jaffe | 1974–1975 | harmonica |
Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
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Hugh Malcolm | 1967–1972 |
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Alva "Reggie" Lewis | guitar |
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Glen Adams | keyboards | |||
Robbie Shakespeare | bass guitar | Catch a Fire (1973) | ||
Wayne Perkins | lead guitar | |||
John "Rabbit" Bundrick |
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Chris Karen | percussion | |||
Winston Wright | ||||
Bernard "Touter" Harvey |
| Natty Dread (1974) | ||
Nathaniel Ian Wynter aka Natty Wailer | keyboards |
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Vin Gordon | saxophone | Kaya (1978) | ||
Glen Da Costa |
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David Madden | trumpet | |||
Val Douglas | bass | Survival (1979) [1] | ||
Mikey "Boo" Richards | drums | |||
Carlton "Santa" Davis | Confrontation (1983) | |||
Devon Evans | percussion | |||
Ronald "Nambo" Robinson | trombone |
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c. 1964 |
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c. 1965 |
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c. 1966 |
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1966–1970 |
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1970–1972 |
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1973 |
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1974 |
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1974–1975 |
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1975–1976 |
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1977 |
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1978–1981 |
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Natty Dread is the seventh album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, released in 1974. Previously Marley had recorded with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer as the Wailers, and this was his first record without them.
Legalize It is the debut studio album by Jamaican singer-songwriter and former Wailer Peter Tosh, released in June 1976. It was recorded at Treasure Isle and Randy's, Kingston.
Burnin' is the sixth album by Jamaican reggae group the Wailers, released in October 1973. It was written by all three members and recorded and produced by the Wailers in Jamaica, contemporaneously with tracks from the Catch a Fire album with further recording, mixing and completion while on the Catch a Fire tour in London. It contains the song "I Shot the Sheriff". It was the last album before Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer decided to pursue solo careers, while continuing their local releases through their company Tuff Gong Records. A commercial and critical success in the United States, Burnin' was certified Gold and later added to the National Recording Registry, with the Library of Congress deeming it historically and culturally significant.
Catch a Fire is the fifth studio album by the reggae band The Wailers, released in April 1973. It was their first album released by Island Records. After finishing a UK tour with Johnny Nash, they had started laying down tracks for JAD Records when a disputed CBS contract with Danny Sims created tensions. The band did not have enough money to return to Jamaica, so their road manager Brent Clarke approached producer Chris Blackwell, who agreed to advance The Wailers money for an album. They instead used this money to pay their fares back home, where they completed the recordings that constitute Catch a Fire. The album has nine songs, two of which were written and composed by Peter Tosh; the remaining seven were by Bob Marley. While Bunny Wailer is not credited as a writer, the group's writing style was a collective process. For the immediate follow-up album, Burnin', also released in 1973, he contributed four songs. After Marley returned with the tapes to London, Blackwell reworked the tracks at Island Studios, with contributions by Muscle Shoals session musician Wayne Perkins, who played guitar on three overdubbed tracks. The album had a limited original release under the name The Wailers in a sleeve depicting a Zippo lighter, designed by graphic artists Rod Dyer and Bob Weiner; subsequent releases had an alternative cover designed by John Bonis, featuring an Esther Anderson portrait of Marley smoking a "spliff", and crediting the band as Bob Marley and the Wailers.
Survival is the eleventh studio album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, released in 1979.
Rastaman Vibration is the eighth studio album by Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers, released in April 1976.
Kaya is the tenth studio album by the Jamaican band Bob Marley and the Wailers, released in 1978. The album consists of tracks recorded alongside those released on the Exodus album. It was produced by the band.
Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members, in 1963, were Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer.
Equal Rights is the second studio album by Peter Tosh. It was released in 1977 on Columbia Records.
Talkin' Blues is a live album by Bob Marley & The Wailers, released in 1991. It contains live studio recordings from 1973 and 1975 intercut with interview segments of Bob Marley. The majority of tracks are taken from the recordings Bob Marley & The Wailers did on 31 October 1973, at The Record Plant in Sausalito, California, for San Francisco radio station KSAN. They include "You Can't Blame the Youth", sung by Peter Tosh, and "Get Up, Stand Up" with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh alternatingly taking lead vocals. The remaining tracks are taken from recordings made before the release of 1974's Natty Dread album, a performance at The Lyceum Theatre in London and interview segments from Jamaican radio in 1975.
The Wailing Wailers is the 1965 eponymous debut studio album by the Wailers, later known as Bob Marley and the Wailers. Released on the Studio One label, the album is a compilation of various recordings made between 1964 and 1965 by Neville “Bunny” Livingston, Robert Nesta Marley and Peter McIntosh. It compiles what Clement Coxsone Dodd considered the best Wailers recordings from this period. They were accompanied by the Studio One backing band, The Soul Brothers.
The Wailers Band is a Jamaican reggae band formed by former members of Bob Marley and the Wailers after Marley's death in 1981. It was led by bassist Aston "Familyman" Barrett until 2016, when he passed the role onto his son, Aston Barrett Jr.
Franklin Delano Alexander "Junior" Braithwaite was a reggae musician from Kingston, Jamaica and the youngest member of the vocal group, The Wailing Wailers.
Blackheart Man is the debut album by Bunny Wailer, originally released on 8 September 1976, in Jamaica on Solomonic Records and internationally on Island Records.
Word, Sound and Power are a Jamaican reggae band, formed in 1976 as Peter Tosh's backing band after Tosh left The Wailers.
Hall of Fame: A Tribute to Bob Marley's 50th Anniversary is an album by Bunny Wailer, released through RAS Records in November 1995. In 1997, the album won Wailer the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
Bob, Peter, Bunny & Rita is a roots reggae album by Bob Marley & the Wailers, released posthumously in 1985, four years after Marley's death. All tracks were previously unreleased recordings by Jad Records Co., Inc.
Winston Hubert McIntosh, professionally known as Peter Tosh, was a Jamaican reggae musician. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari. He was murdered in 1987 during a home invasion.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bob Marley:
Easy Skanking in Boston '78 is the fifth live album by Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers. It was released on February 3, 2015, by Island Records and Tuff Gong. It was recorded at the Boston Music Hall on June 8, 1978, as part of the band's Kaya Tour in support of their 10th studio album, Kaya.