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Blackheart Man — Bunny Wailer

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Bunny Wailer's celebrated 1976 solo debut, self-produced on his own Solomonic imprint and distributed by Island Records, drew on original Wailers-era songs and deep Rastafarian themes and is regularly ranked among the greatest reggae albums ever recorded.

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Type: recording
Confidence: Probable
Era: Open era →

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Story · ProbableWhen reggae became an album format

In the mid-to-late 1970s, international labels started signing Jamaican singles artists as album acts, and a run of records built to be heard start to finish redefined what a reggae release could be.