”COME ON IN” Welcome to our preview edition of “Walkin’ and Talkin’ the Blues.” This publication is a work-in-progress containing a fraction of what what will be a much larger […]

The Wailers started out in the late fifties as a vocal trio with Bob Marley. Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingstone the founders. Our correspondent Jay Fish, a reggae musicologist and the disc jockey at WUBS and select nightclubs, visited the trio in their Wailing Wailers Record Shack in the heart of downtown Kingston late in August, 1973.

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