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  "slug": "bob-marley-and-the-wailers",
  "name": "Bob Marley & The Wailers",
  "description": "Bob Marley & The Wailers appears 3 times in our Reggae, Sung to Someone, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/bob-marley-and-the-wailers/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
    "first": 1975,
    "last": 1975
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 1,
    "list": "Reggae"
  },
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      "slug": "reggae",
      "name": "Reggae",
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      "entries": 1
    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "sung-to-someone",
      "name": "Sung to Someone",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/",
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      "slug": "the-desk-the-hundred",
      "name": "The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred",
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      "trackKey": "bob-marley-and-the-wailers--no-woman-no-cry",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/bob-marley-and-the-wailers--no-woman-no-cry/",
      "title": "No Woman, No Cry",
      "year": 1975,
      "label": "Island",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The live version, because the studio take is merely very good. Seven minutes in which a man consoles a room by describing a yard in Trenchtown, and the organ line does half the consoling.",
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      "title": "No Woman, No Cry",
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      "whyItMatters": "Not a title about women in general, whatever fifty years of misquotation suggest. It is \"no, woman, don't cry\" — said to one person sitting in the government yard, and everything else in it is what he is telling her to remember.",
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      "title": "No Woman, No Cry",
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      "whyItMatters": "Seven minutes of a man consoling a room by describing a yard. The most widely loved record here, and it earns every bit of that.",
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