The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer

by Colin Grant

Book Overview

Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers--one of the most influential groups in popular music. Colin Grant presents a lively history of this remarkable band from their upbringing in the brutal slums of Kingston to their first recordings and then international superstardom. With energetic prose and stunning, original...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393081176
• ISBN13: 9780393081176
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"