Like everyone else I know* I discovered Bob Marley when the live version of No Woman, No Cry became a huge hit in the summer of 1975. Then I dug deeper and discovered this tune from five years earlier.

I had just left school and was living in a tiny hamlet near Taunton, working on a cider farm and spending as much time as I could watching Somerset play cricket.

That song, along with Rod Stewarts’s dirge Sailing, seemed to soundtrack the whole summer.

I began to follow Marley from that point on but it was years before I delved further back into The Wailers’ past and discovered songs like this.

It was the opening track on Soul Rebels, produced by Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and released in December 1970 – the first album to be credited to “Bob Marley & The Wailers” and the first to get a UK release, by Trojan Records.

The trio – Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston – had been releasing singles since way back in 1962, when they made their debut with the ska tune Judge Not, under the name Robert Marley & Beverley’s All-Stars.

Their only previous album was called The Wailing Wailers, which included future standards such as Simmer Down, One Love and Rude Boy, released in 1965 – but only in Jamaica.

Soul Rebel remains one of my favourite Marley/Wailers tunes, with that memorable chorus: “I’m a rebel, soul rebel / I’m a capturer, soul adventurer.”

They later re-recorded the song with different lyrics under the title Run For Cover but this is the original 1970 recording, with Scratch’s sparse production, followed by his equally spare version.

It’s just perfect in its simplicity.

*Everyone except my friend Errol who grew up in the Blue Mountains in Jamaica and can remember being turfed off the ping-pong table at the local community centre by a bunch of older guys who turned up in a big car and would make him pick up stray balls for them… those older guys were Bob and his mates.