The Essential Bob Marley: The Very Best of the Early Years

Compilation by Bob Marley

Released 2005

Alva “Reggie” Lewis
guitar [1.6-7, 2.1, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14]
Alvin “Seeco” Patterson
percussion [4]
Aston “Family Man” Barrett
bass [1.6-7, 2.1, 2.11, 2.14]
Bob Marley
guitar [1.4, 2.15], lead vocals [1.6-7, 1.10, 1.13, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8-9, 2.11-15], producer [2.1, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.13-14, 1.5-6, 1.11, 1.13], vocal [4]
Bunny Wailer
bass [1.4, 2.15], repeater [6], tenor vocals [2.1, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14-15, 1.4, 1.6]
Carlton Lee
engineer [1.7, 2.15]
Carlton “Carly” Barrett
drums (drum set) [1.4, 1.6-7, 2.1, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14]
Clement “Coxsone” Dodd
producer [2.8, 1.13]
Errol Thompson
engineer [1.4, 2.1, 2.14], recording [1.6, 1.11-13, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14]
Glen Adams
keyboard [2.8, 2.11, 2.14, 1.7]
Hortense Lewis
tenor vocals [15]
Hugh Malcolm
drums (drum set) [15]
Lee “Scratch” Perry
producer [1.2, 1.4, 1.6-8, 1.10-13, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.13-15]
Lloyd Parks
bass [8]
Lynford Anderson
engineer [15]
Peter Tosh
melodica [6], piano [1], tenor vocals [1.4, 1.6, 2.1, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14-15], xylophone [15]
Rannie “Bop” Williams
guitar [1.6-7, 2.8, 2.14]
Rita Marley
tenor vocals [15]
The Upsetters
performer [4]
The Wailers
producer [1.4, 2.1]
Tommy McCook
tenor saxophone [1.4, 2.1]
Tyrone Downie
organ [1.6, 2.1]
Uziah “Sticky” Thompson
percussion [1.6, 2.1, 2.8]
Vin Gordon
trombone [1.4, 2.1]
Winston Wright
organ [4, 7]
“Deadly” Headley Bennett
tenor saxophone [14]