Bunny Wailer Discography
Studio Albums
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Blackheart Man
1976
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Protest
1977
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Roots Radics Rockers Reggae
1979
Album AKA In I Father's House. |
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Rootsman Skanking
1981
Album AKA Rock 'N' Groove. |
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Sings The Wailers
1981
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DUBD'SCO Volumes 1 & 2
1981
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Time Will Tell
1981
Album AKA Tribute. |
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Marketplace
1985
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Liberation
1988
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Rule Dance Hall
1988
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Gumption
1990
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Dance Massive
1992
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Just Be Nice
1993
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Crucial! Roots Classics
1994
Songs recorded between 1977 and 1985. |
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Hall Of Fame CD1
1995
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Hall Of Fame CD2
1995
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Communication
2000
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Bunny Wailer Biography
194x
- Neville O'Riley Livingston was born 1947, April 10, in Kingston, Jamaica.
- Neville lived with his father (Thaddius Livingston) in Nine Mile, Jamaica. He attended the Stepney School. It was there that Neville and Robert Nesta Marley became friends.
195x
- Neville and his father moved to Kingston, Jamaica in 1952. Neville's father and Robert's mother were both single parents. In Kingston they lived together and had a daughter (Claudette "Pearl" Livingston).
196x
- Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, Winston Hubert "Peter" McIntosh, Neville O'Riley "Bunny" Livingston and Franklin Delano Alexander "Junior" Braithwaite learned breath control, harmony techniques, music theory and songwriting from Jamaican singer / arranger / composer Joe Higgs. Higgs gave free music lessons at his yard on Third Street in Trench Town, Jamaica. He was a devout rasta.
- Bob, Peter, Bunny, Junior, Beverly Kelso and Cherry Green joined to start "The Teenagers" vocal group in 1963. The group was renamed "The Wailing Rudeboys", "The Wailing Wailers" and last "The Wailers".
- Bunny left The Wailers temporary in 1967. He was arrested and sentenced to 14 months in prison for marijuana possession.
- Bunny rejoined The Wailers in 1968, September.
197x
- The Wailers signed a deal with Chris Blackwell's Island Records and recorded the album "Catch A Fire" in 1972. "Catch A Fire" was the first international Reggae album.
- Bunny left The Wailers in 1973. He refused to tour outside of Jamaica.
- Bunny started his solo career.
- Bunny started the "Solomonic" label in 1973.
- Bunny and Peter recorded the songs "Bide Up" and "Fighting Against Conviction" for Bunny's "Blackheart Man" album.
- Bunny, Peter and Bob recorded a new version of The Wailers' song "Dreamland" for Bunny's "Blackheart Man" album.
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| Photo from the 1977 album "Protest". |
198x
- Peter, Bunny, Junior and Vision recorded songs for The Wailers' "The Never Ending Wailers" album in 1986.
- Bunny toured outside of Jamaica for the first time (since 1973) in 1986.
- Bunny, Junior and Vision performed the song "Together Again" at the Madison Square Garden in 1986.
199x
- Bunny performed at the Reggae Sunsplash Festival for the first time in 1990.
- Bunny's "Time Will Tell: A Tribute To Bob Marley" album won the 1990 Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 1991.
- Bunny's "Crucial! Roots Classics" album won the 1994 Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 1995.
- Bunny's "Hall Of Fame: A Tribute To Bob Marley's 50th Anniversary" album won the 1996 Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 1997.
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