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Released
  
August 1971

Length
  
30:43

Release date
  
August 1971

Label
  
Beverley's

Recorded
  
1969–1970

The Best of the Wailers (1971)
  
Catch a Fire (1973)

Producer
  
Leslie Kong

Genre
  
Reggae

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Studio
  
Dynamic Sound Studios, Kingston, Jamaica

Artist
  
Bob Marley and the Wailers

Similar
  
Bob Marley and the Wailers albums, Reggae albums

The Best of the Wailers is an album by The Wailers, released in August 1971. Despite its title, it is not a compilation album. The album was recorded in 1969–1970 (prior to the band's involvement with Lee Perry) but only released in 1971.

Contents

The album was produced by Leslie Kong, who died of a heart attack at the age of 38 a week after the album was released.

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Personnel

The Wailers
  • Bob Marley – vocals
  • Peter Tosh – vocals, melodica
  • Bunny Livingstone – vocals
  • Additional musicians

    Beverley's All Stars:

  • Gladstone Anderson – piano
  • Winston Wright – organ
  • Paul Douglas – drums
  • Jackie Jackson – bass
  • Lloyd Parks – bass
  • Lynford "Hux" Brown – guitar
  • Radcliffe "Rad" Bryan – guitar
  • Lynn Taitt – guitar
  • Aston Barrett – bass
  • Carlton Barrett – drums
  • Production
  • Leslie Kong – producer
  • Warwick Lyn – producer
  • Songs

    1Soul Shakedown3:05
    2Stop The Train2:17
    3Caution2:40

    References

    The Best of The Wailers Wikipedia