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These two tracks were released on separate singles (B-sides of "Stir It Up" and "Bus Dem Shut"), but the matrix details cut into the run-off grooves reveals that they are WIRL BM 3273 and 3274, so they were clearly cut at WIRL Records in one session, round about 1967-68. They were released on Wail N Soul M, credited interestingly to "Bob Marley and the Wailing Wailers"
It was very rare for the Wailers to release wholly acoustic tracks, especially an instrumental.
what a gem of a rarity!
I found out very recently that Alvin "Seeco" Patterson plays percussion on this; he was apparently a veteran of the mento bands of the 1950s, and by the time of Bob Marley's death had been playing and recording for about thirty years
big ups to "seeco" then!
Wish I had the other version more firmly in my head to compare / contrast. This one is very nice too. One thing that sets their take on this old gospel song apart from others is that the frame of the song puts it at a remove from the singers so that it's more a sweet (possibly melancholy) reminiscence of the giver of the song as opposed to a declaration that presumes the worthiness of the declaimers. The song is more about the song than about salvation / the certainty of. If that makes sense. Thanks for the lure.
hey runobodyii, it makes sense to me. i like the emphasis on the song being 'about the song' here too.