''Bush Doctor'' is the third studio album by Jamaican

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singer Peter Tosh. It was released in 1978 on

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. The album features

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as guest vocalist on one song, while

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plays guitar on two tracks. The rhythm section featured Sly and Robbie.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Peter Tosh; except where indicated ;Side 1 #" (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back" ( Smokey Robinson,

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) - 3:43 #"Pick Myself Up" - 3:55 #"I'm the Toughest" - 3:48 #"Soon Come" (Tosh,

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) - 3:54 #"Moses - The Prophet" - 3:37 ;Side 2 #

"Bush Doctor" - 4:04 #"Stand Firm" - 6:10 #"Dem Ha Fe Get a Beatin'" - 4:11 #"Creation" - 6:29 ;Bonus tracks on 2002 EMI Remaster #

"Lesson in My Life" - (previously unreleased) #"Soon Come" - (long version) #"I'm the Toughest" - (long version) #"Bush Doctor" - (long version) #"(You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back" (alternate version) #"Tough Rock Soft Stones" - (previously unreleased)

Personnel

*Peter Tosh - rhythm and acoustic guitars, clavinet, audio harp, lead vocals *

Robbie Shakespeare Robert Warren Dale Shakespeare (27 September 1953 – 8 December 2021) was a Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as half of the reggae rhythm section and production duo Sly and Robbie, with drummer Sly Dunbar. Regarded as on ...

- bass, pick guitar, guitar, horn arrangements * Sly Dunbar - drums, gato box * Mikey "Mao" Chung - lead guitar, Moog synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, pick guitar * Robert Lyn - acoustic piano, organ, Fender Rhodes, clavinet *

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- keyboards *Luther François - soprano saxophone *

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- lead guitar *

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- percussion *

Uziah "Sticky" Thompson Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson (1 August 1936 – 25 August 2014) was a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active from the late 1950s. He worked with some of the best known performers of Jamaican music and played on hundreds of albums. Biog ...

- percussion with: *

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- arrangement on "Creation" *

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- autoharp on "Creation" *

- guitar on "Bush Doctor" and "Stand Firm" *

- vocals on "(You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back" ;Technical *

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- executive producer * Errol Thompson,

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, Lew Hahn - engineer

Charts

Sales and certifications

References

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