Bunny Wailer-Crucial! Roots Classics
released: 1994

1. Boderation 
2. Baldheaded Woman 
3. Old Dragon 
4. Crucial 
5. Innocent Blood 
6. Trouble On The Road Again 
7. Peace Talks 
8. Unity 
9. Togawar Game 
10. Struggle 
11. Free Jah Jah Children 
12. Power Strugglers 
13. Bright Soul 
14. Here In Jamaica 

Personnel: Bunny Wailer (vocals, percussion,talking drums,repeater); 
Dwight Pickney, Earl "Chinna" Smith, D. Bryan, E. Ranglin, Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont (guitar); Tommy McCook, Bobby Ellis, Deadly Headly Bennett, Dean Fraser, Nambo Robinson (horns); Anthony "Steely" Johnson, Earl "Wia" Lindo, Keith Stirling, B. Kalphat, Gladstone Anderson (keyboards); Errol "Flabba" Carter, Robbie Shakespeare (bass); Lincoln "Style" Scott, Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, E. Clarke (drums); "Sticky" Thompson (percussion). Includes liner notes by Roger Steffens. CRUCIAL! ROOTS CLASSICS won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. Bunny Wailer, born Neville Livingston, was the most overlooked member of the original Wailers, but while Bob Marley and Peter Tosh might have garnered more acclaim, it was Bunny's high, sweet voice that gave the trio's harmonies their power, and his thoughtful, understated songwriting often matched Marley and Tosh's best work. An unfailingly positive and uplifting songwriter (tracks like "Unity" and "Struggle" have the emotive power of the best gospel), Bunny Wailer is also a standout singer and a canny producer, able to give these tracks both the necessary bass throb of the best roots reggae and a fleet lightness of tone that makes plain reggae's essential links to American R&B. This aptly-titled compilation of solo recordings from perhaps the most productive and artistically satisfying period of Bunny's career, the late '70s and early '80s, is both a perfect introduction to the man's work and a standout collection of classic roots reggae.