A close-up of a musician with salt-and-pepper hair and sunglasses, singing into a microphone while playing an acoustic guitar. They are wearing a black track jacket with white stripes on the sleeves over a grey t-shirt.
Al Anderson of The Original Wailers Credit: Screengrab via Sugarshack Sessions / YouTube

Al Anderson played guitar with The Wailers up until the death of the reggae outfit’s leader Bob Marley. The 78-year-old remains on the road with this iteration of the band—”The Original Wailers“—which includes singer-guitarist Chet Samuels, Ras Klamps on keys, bassist Omar Lopez and drummer Paapa Nyarkoh.

This is a chance to see the band in a new-ish venue, Zodiac, which is bringing live music back to a Ybor City address once home to The Rubb (plus Twilight, The Honey Pot, and PTL after that).

Tickets to see Al Anderson’s Original Wailers play Zodiac in Ybor City on Saturday, Jan. 3 are still available for $35.59.

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This article appears in Dec. 25 – 31, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...