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The Wailers Honor the Memory of Bob Marley by Continuing the Social Revolution

By Ben Corbett
Boulder Weekly | January 12, 2009
The core of what has become a family tree of musicians began in 1963, when Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston, Peter McIntosh, Beverley Kelso, Junior Braithwaite and Cherry Smith united as a ska band known as The Teenagers.
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Tags: Reggae, Bob Marley, The Wailers

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