Bunny Wailer: Bunny Wailer Sings The Wailers
Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1981
THE PRODIGIOUS travesty of our time may be that rock bands rooted in reggae like the Clash or the Specials are more familiar to white American kids than the Jamaican forebears. Let's face it, all Casey Kasem's chillun have heard of the Police.
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