{"id":100433,"date":"2025-12-30T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/100433\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:48:09","slug":"al-andersons-original-wailers-play-ybor-city-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/100433\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Anderson&#8217;s Original Wailers play Ybor City this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" data-attachment-id=\"349406\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/al-anderson-the-wailers-sugarshack-youtube\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Al-Anderson-The-Wailers-Sugarshack-YouTube.png?fit=1445%2C811&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1445,811\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Al Anderson The Wailers Sugarshack YouTube\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Al Anderson of The Original Wailers&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Al-Anderson-The-Wailers-Sugarshack-YouTube.png?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Al-Anderson-The-Wailers-Sugarshack-YouTube.png?fit=780%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Al-Anderson-The-Wailers-Sugarshack-YouTube.png\" alt=\"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.\" class=\"wp-image-349406\"  \/>Al Anderson of The Original Wailers Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/siYDtXari8A?si=QpCEkXgsp3hvVlt2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screengrab via Sugarshack Sessions \/ YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Al Anderson played guitar with The Wailers up until the death of the reggae outfit\u2019s leader Bob Marley. The 78-year-old remains on the road with this iteration of the band\u2014\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/theoriginalwailers.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Original Wailers<\/a>\u201c\u2014which includes singer-guitarist Chet Samuels, Ras Klamps on keys, bassist Omar Lopez and drummer Paapa Nyarkoh. <\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/the-original-wailers-feat-al-anderson-21052659\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Al Anderson\u2019s Original Wailers play Zodiac in Ybor City on Saturday, Jan. 3 are still available for $35.59.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767131289_336_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/dec-25-31-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 25 \u2013 31, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al Anderson of The Original Wailers Credit: Screengrab via Sugarshack Sessions \/ YouTube Al Anderson played guitar with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52676,1864,135,1865,137,136,52677,52678],"class_list":["post-100433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-al-anderson","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-original-wailers","tag-zodiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}