Roots of a Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Roots of a Legend

Compilation by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Released 1996

Tracklist

CD 1
1
Duppy Conqueror
3:42
2
Try Me
2:49
5.0 ★
3
Keep On Skanking
3:32
4
Small Axe
3:56
5
Kaya
2:41
6
Brain Washing
2:44
7
Put It On
3:36
2.5 ★
8
Fussing and Fighting
2:29
9
Mr Brown
3:36
10
No Sympathy
2:16
11
Lively Up Yourself
2:53
3.0 ★
12
Fussing and Fighting (rhythm)
2:30
13
More Axe
3:30
14
Corner Stone
2:30
4.0 ★
15
Riding High
2:48
4.0 ★
16
Trench Town Rock
2:59
4.2 ★
17
Turn Me Loose
2:34
18
It’s Alright
2:38
19
Sun Is Shining
2:13
4.5 ★
20
Caution
2:44
5.0 ★
21
Stand Alone
2:14
5.0 ★
22
Stand Alone (rhythm)
2:12
23
400 Years
2:34
24
All in One
3:37
25
Duppy Conqueror (rhythm)
3:23
CD 2
1
Soul Shakedown Party
3:06
3.8 ★
2
Adam & Eve
3:06
2.5 ★
3
Brand New Second Hand
3:07
3.5 ★
4
Soul Rebel
3:18
5
My Cup
3:33
5.0 ★
6
No Water
2:07
5.0 ★
7
Reaction
2:40
3.8 ★
8
African Herbman
2:23
4.0 ★
9
Stop the Train
2:18
10
There She Goes
2:31
5.0 ★
11
How Many Times
2:43
12
Rebel Hop
2:38
13
Chances Are
3:09
3.8 ★
14
Hammer
2:52
4.0 ★
15
Treat You Right
2:15
16
Cheer Up
2:01
3.9 ★
17
Touch Me
3:00
18
Rainbow Country
5:42
5.0 ★
19
Soon Come
2:20
3.8 ★
20
Long, Long Winter
3:02
21
Mellow Mood
2:35
5.0 ★
22
Soul Almighty
2:38
23
Don’t Rock the Boat
4:28
24
Keep On Movin’
3:03
25
Memphis (rhythm)
2:08

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Release credits

Alva “Reggie” Lewis
guitar [1.3-4, 1.7, 1.11, 1.19-21, 1.23, 2.4, 2.7-8, 2.12]
Arthur Jenkins
arranger [10, 13, 15, 17, 21], producer [10, 13, 15, 17, 21]
Aston “Family Man” Barrett
bass [2.8, 1.3, 1.7, 1.11, 1.19, 1.21]
Bob Marley
additional [19], lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.4-8, 2.10, 2.12-14, 2.17, 2.19-22, 2.25, 1.2-5, 1.7, 1.11-14, 1.17, 1.19-22, 1.24], producer [2.4-8, 2.12, 2.22, 1.2, 1.5, 1.7, 1.10-11, 1.14-16, 1.19, 1.21, 1.23], tenor vocals [23]
Buddy Davidson
engineer [2]
Bunny Wailer
additional [19], lead vocals [2.15, 2.19, 1.15], repeater [19], tenor vocals [1.4, 1.7, 1.11, 1.19-21, 1.23, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7-8, 2.12]
Carlton Lee
engineer [2.1, 2.9, 2.14, 2.16, 2.19, 2.21, 1.3-4, 1.20]
Carlton “Carly” Barrett
drums (drum set) [1.3-4, 1.11, 1.19, 1.21, 1.23, 2.4, 2.7-8, 2.12]
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
producer [1.2, 1.10, 1.14, 1.23, 2.4-7, 2.12, 2.22]
Danny Sims
producer [14, 21]
Dave Barker
tenor vocals [4]
Denzil Laing
percussion [21]
Errol Thompson
engineer [11, 21], recording [1.2, 1.5, 1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14-15, 1.19, 1.21-23, 2.4-8, 2.12, 2.22, 2.25]
Gladstone Anderson
piano [1.20, 2.1]
Glen Adams
keyboard [1.3, 1.7, 1.21, 1.23, 2.4, 2.7-8, 2.12], organ [4]
Hugh Malcolm
drums (drum set) [1.7, 2.2, 2.14, 2.21]
Hux Brown
guitar [2.1-2, 2.21, 1.20]
Jackie Jackson
bass [2.1-2, 2.14, 2.21, 1.4, 1.20]
Johnny Nash
producer [10, 13, 15, 17, 21]
Lee “Scratch” Perry
producer [2.3-8, 2.12, 2.20, 2.22, 2.25, 1.2-5, 1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.14-15, 1.19, 1.21-24]
Leslie Kong
producer [1.20, 2.1, 2.9, 2.16, 2.19]
Lloyd Parks
bass [1.23, 2.4, 2.7, 2.12]
Paul Douglas
drums (drum set) [1.20, 2.1]
Peter Tosh
guitar [2.1, 2.12, 1.20], lead vocals [1.10, 1.23, 2.19], melodica [19], piano [11], tenor vocals [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7-8, 2.12, 2.14, 2.21, 1.4, 1.7, 1.11, 1.19-21]
Rannie “Bop” Williams
guitar [1.3-4, 1.7, 1.19, 1.21, 1.23, 2.4, 2.7, 2.12]
Rita Marley
tenor vocals [2, 14, 21]
Ted Pounder
producer [2]
The Upsetters
performer [12]
The Wailers
producer [11]
Tommy McCook
tenor saxophone [4, 11]
Tyrone Downie
organ [11, 19]
Uziah “Sticky” Thompson
percussion [1.7, 1.11, 1.19, 1.23, 2.4, 2.7, 2.12]
Vin Gordon
trombone [4, 11]
Winston Wright
keyboard [2], organ [1.3, 1.20, 2.1]
“Deadly” Headley Bennett
alto saxophone [4], tenor saxophone [21]

Issues

R
Roots of a Legend
2x CD
1996