Going Back to My Roots: The Best of the Early Years

Compilation by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Released 1998

reggae rocksteady roots reggae

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Soul Rebel
3:47
4.0 ★
2
Try Me
2:47
3.0 ★
3
It's Alright
2:36
3.0 ★
4
No Sympathy
2:16
1.0 ★
5
My Cup
3:34
4.0 ★
6
Corner Stone
2:30
2.5 ★
7
No Water
2:11
5.0 ★
8
There She Goes
2:33
5.0 ★
9
Mellow Mood
2:34
5.0 ★
10
Treat You Right
2:11
11
Chances Are
3:19
12
Hammer
2:54
4.0 ★
13
Touch Me
3:08
1.0 ★
14
How Many Times
2:25
15
Caution
2:46
5.0 ★
16
Mr. Brown
3:29
2.5 ★
CD 2
1
Duppy Conqueror
3:30
1.0 ★
2
Small Axe
3:44
4.6 ★
3
Rebel's Hop
2:40
1.0 ★
4
Soul Almighty
2:41
5
Kaya
2:32
4.0 ★
6
Trench Town Rock
3:00
3.5 ★
7
All in One
3:34
1.0 ★
8
400 Years
2:33
1.0 ★
9
Lively Up Yourself
2:53
10
Soul Captive
2:04
3.0 ★
11
Back Out
4:18
12
Soon Come
2:21
3.8 ★
13
Riding High
2:49
2.5 ★
14
You Can't Do That to Me
2:50
15
Soul Shakedown Party
3:09
3.2 ★
16
Do It Twice
2:45
CD 3
1
Stop the Train
2:22
2
Natural Mystic
5:44
3.2 ★
3
Keep on Movin'
3:06
2.0 ★
4
Stand Alone
2:10
5
Rainbow Country
5:48
3.0 ★
6
Reaction
2:44
2.9 ★
7
Go Tell It on the Mountain
3:16
3.5 ★
8
Can't You See
2:45
9
Cheer Up
2:04
3.1 ★
10
Don't Rock My Boat
4:31
3.4 ★
11
Put It On
3:09
12
Fussin' and Fightin'
2:29
4.0 ★
13
Memphis
2:58
14
African Herbsman
2:24
2.5 ★
15
Sun Is Shining
2:11
4.0 ★
16
Brain Washing
2:37
2.5 ★
CD 4
1
Bob Marley Interview
36:07

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Release credits

Alva “Reggie” Lewis
guitar [1.3, 1.15, 2.3, 2.8, 3.3, 3.6, 3.14-15]
Arthur Jenkins
arranger [1, 8-10, 13], producer [1, 8-10, 13]
Aston “Family Man” Barrett
bass [3, 14-15]
Bob Marley
additional [2.12, 3.8], lead vocals [2.3-4, 2.7, 2.10, 2.12, 2.15, 3.3, 3.6, 3.12, 3.14-16, 1.1-3, 1.5-9, 1.12-13, 1.15], producer [3.3, 3.6, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14-16, 2.3-4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.13, 1.2, 1.4-7], tenor vocals [2.8, 3.7-8]
Bunny Wailer
additional [3.8, 2.12], lead vocals [1.10, 2.12-13], repeater [15], tenor vocals [3.3, 3.6-8, 3.14-15, 2.3, 2.8, 2.10, 2.15, 1.3, 1.15]
Carlton Lee
engineer [2.10, 2.12, 2.15, 3.1, 3.7-9, 1.9, 1.12, 1.15]
Carlton “Carly” Barrett
drums (drum set) [1.3, 3.3, 3.6, 3.14-15, 2.3, 2.8]
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
producer [1.2, 1.4-7, 2.3-4, 2.8, 3.6]
Danny Sims
producer [9, 12]
Denzil Laing
percussion [9]
Errol Thompson
recording [2.3-4, 2.8, 2.13, 3.3, 3.6, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14-16, 1.2-7, 1.16]
Gladstone Anderson
piano [2.10, 2.15, 1.15, 3.7-8]
Glen Adams
keyboard [2.3, 2.8, 1.3, 3.3, 3.6, 3.14]
Hugh Malcolm
drums (drum set) [9, 12]
Hux Brown
guitar [1.9, 1.15, 2.10, 2.15, 3.7-8]
Jackie Jackson
bass [1.9, 1.12, 1.15, 3.7-8, 2.10, 2.15]
Johnny Nash
producer [1, 8-10, 13]
Lee “Scratch” Perry
producer [1.2-7, 1.16, 2.3-4, 2.7-8, 2.13, 3.3, 3.6, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14-16]
Leslie Kong
producer [2.10, 2.12, 2.15, 3.1, 3.7-9, 1.15]
Lloyd Parks
bass [1.3, 3.6, 2.3, 2.8]
Paul Douglas
drums (drum set) [3.7-8, 2.10, 2.15, 1.15]
Peter Tosh
guitar [1.15, 3.7-8, 2.3, 2.10, 2.15], lead vocals [2.8, 2.12, 3.7-8, 1.4], melodica [15], tenor vocals [3.3, 3.6, 3.14-15, 1.3, 1.9, 1.12, 1.15, 2.3, 2.10, 2.15]
Rannie “Bop” Williams
guitar [3.3, 3.6, 3.15, 1.3, 2.3, 2.8]
Rita Marley
tenor vocals [9, 12]
The Upsetters
performer [1]
Tyrone Downie
organ [15]
Uziah “Sticky” Thompson
percussion [2.3, 2.8, 3.6, 3.15, 1.3]
Winston Wright
organ [3.7-8, 1.15, 2.10, 2.15]

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Going Back to My Roots: The Best of the Early Years
4x CD
1998