The Incredible Life & Times of Aston Barrett | Bob Marley's Right Hand Man

The late Aston Barrett has gone down as one of the greatest reggae instrumentalists in the history of the genre. He's known mostly as Bob Marley and the Wailers bandleader and bassist but was a lot more. Not only was he the backbone of Marley's music machine but was also a pioneer of reggae music as we know it today. This video traces his rise from Kingston's tenement yards to the world's biggest stages