There are countless
Bob Marley
collections out there, and more each year, most of them made up of
Marley & the Wailers
' pre-
Island Records
recordings done initially for the Jamaican market, and many of these are rather random, thrown-together affairs, possibly legally dubious, reshuffling the same tracks in various configurations, often without liner notes or much annotation. The recordings are generally rougher, grittier, and less sound-expansive than
Marley
's more polished (and tightly copyright controlled)
Island
releases, and they're definitely more Jamaican in feel. This set features tracks
the Wailers
recorded with producer
Lee "Scratch" Perry
(as well as some
Wailers
self-productions) between August 1970 and April 1971 at Randy's in Kingston, a period that many feel generated the most free-flowing, creative material
and
ever recorded. ~ Steve Leggett