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 rather random 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
the Wailers and
Marley ever recorded.