The Best of the Early Years - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Compilation by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Released 2001

Alva “Reggie” Lewis
guitar [2, 4-5, 7, 9, 14, 16]
Alvin “Seeco” Patterson
percussion [15]
Aston “Family Man” Barrett
bass [2, 5, 7, 14, 16]
Bob Marley
background vocals [12], guitar [15], lead vocals [1-2, 4-5, 7, 9, 13-14, 16], producer [2, 5-7, 9, 11, 13-14], vocal [15]
Bunny Wailer
bass [15], percussion [12], performer [12], repeater [2], tenor vocals [1-2, 4-5, 7, 9, 14-15]
Carlton Lee
engineer [1, 4, 16]
Carlton “Carly” Barrett
drums (drum set) [2, 4-5, 7, 9, 12, 14-16]
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
producer [9]
Dave Barker
tenor vocals [4]
Errol Thompson
engineer [7, 15], recording [2, 5, 9-11, 13-14]
Gladstone Anderson
piano [1]
Glen Adams
keyboard [5, 9, 14, 16], organ [4]
Harold Butler
keyboard [12]
Hux Brown
guitar [1]
Jackie Jackson
bass [1, 4]
Karl Pitterson
bass [12]
Lee “Scratch” Perry
producer [2, 4-5, 9-16]
Leslie Kong
producer [1]
Lloyd Parks
bass [9]
Paul Douglas
drums (drum set) [1]
Peter Tosh
background vocals [12], guitar [1], melodica [2], piano [7], tenor vocals [1-2, 4-5, 7, 9, 14-15]
Rannie “Bop” Williams
guitar [2, 4, 9, 14, 16]
Richard “Dirty Harry” Hall
horn [12]
The Wailers
producer [7, 15]
Tommy McCook
saxophone [12], tenor saxophone [4, 7, 15]
Tyrone Downie
keyboard [12], organ [2, 7]
Uziah “Sticky” Thompson
percussion [2, 7, 9]
Vin Gordon
trombone [4, 7, 15]
Winston Wright
organ [1, 15-16]
“Deadly” Headley Bennett
alto saxophone [4]