- This article is about the Seattle-based garage rock band. For the group consisting of Bunny Livingston, Peter Tosh and Bob Marley, see Bob Marley.
The Wailers were an American rock band, often considered the first garage rock group. Their 1961 regional cover of "Louie Louie" inspired other groups from the Seattle-area, most influentially The Kingsmen, to record the same song, and the band's influence established Seattle (as well as cities like Tacoma and Olympia) as a center for musical innovation and the home of a long string of regional favorites playing a kind of raunchy, amateur, yet passionate, form of rock and roll.