So I've so far had no reason to doubt the "authenticity" of this edition ... please enlighten me as to why I should trust Captain Wrong's statement above! Is what he posted "common knowledge" that I, the rather casual Marley fan, just didn't catch yet?
I am a big Marley fan and have been listening to this album for years - it is my favorite of his. I had not heard that the Deluxe Edition version may not be the original. However, if you compare it to the version released in the US, there are clearly overdubs and things added to the US version that make it sound a bit more commercial to me and so it would seem that the "original" version on the Deluxe Edition is probably authentic. One more piece of evidence is the new documentary where Chris Blackwell says that Island took the original and added overdubs for the release outside of Jamaica...so it would seem to be more support for that. Unlike Captain Wrong, I think the "original" Jamaican version on the Deluxe Edition is superior to the overdubbed one that most of us are familiar with.