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[REGGAE] The Wailers were reggae icon Bob Marley’s band for roughly 20 years until Marley’s death in 1981. Since then there have been a few different configurations of the Wailers, but the configuration we’re talking about here features Wailer’s guitarists Junior Marvin and Donald Kinsey, as well as bassist and founding member Aston “Familyman” Barrett, who has toured as a session musician with everyone from Quincy Jones to Solange. Familyman’s son, Aston Barrett Jr. has also joined the band as drummer, stepping into the shoes of Carlton Barrett, the band’s original drummer and Familyman’s brother, who was murdered in 1987. Obviously this is a band with a complicated history but for the time being they’re together, touring, and playing the music of Bob Marley, which has always been their ultimate goal. Catch the Wailers at Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Tuesday, May 15 with support from Buffalo’s Funktional Flow.