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Bob Marley & The Wailers

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Bob Marley & The Wailers is a Reggae act. Their sound grew out of The Maytals, Toots and the Maytals, Zap Pow, Al Anderson and Clancy Eccles. Those roots explain a lot about how Bob Marley & The Wailers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Gregory Isaacs, Jacob Miller and The Heptones, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Stooges, Warren G, Intwine, Fugees and Eric Clapton, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Bob Marley & The Wailers, reaching back through The Maytals and forward to The Stooges. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Bob Marley & The WailersThe MaytalsToots and the MaytalsZap PowAl AndersonClancy EcclesThe StoogesWarren GIntwineFugeesEric ClaptonEyesburnWelcome to JamrockJosh HeinrichsBob MarleySteel PulseGregory IsaacsJacob MillerThe HeptonesToots and the MaytalsDennis BrownThe Abyssinians

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Bob Marley & The Wailers connections

Bob Marley & The Wailers grew out of The Maytals, Toots and the Maytals, Zap Pow and Al Anderson, shares an orbit with Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Gregory Isaacs and Jacob Miller, went on to shape The Stooges, Warren G, Intwine and Fugees. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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