Negril is an instrumental album originally released in 1975 from a session produced, arranged and mostly composed by Eric Gale, and including some of Jamaica’s best-known musicians. It bears the name of an impoverished Jamaican seaside village which, in 1975, was yet to become a popular tourist destination and had unsophisticated accommodations, but a splendid beach and natural beauty which inspired Gale to memorialize it.
Negril was recorded at the Harry J Studio in Kingston, Jamaica. It was originally released in Jamaica by Micron Music Ltd. and in England by Klik Records (KLP9005). The album is now out of print and sellers demand high prices for used copies.
Though Peter Tosh is not widely known for his guitar skills, he’s got ’em, and they are on full display in this track ‘East Side West Side’, a stupid, super-sick, stank skank tune with tons of wicked guitars and a ridiculous vibe to go with it. This album was re-released in 1997 under the title ‘Peter Tosh and Friends – Negril.‘
In my opinion, this album almost matches ‘Legalize It’ as my favorite Tosh album.
CLICK HERE to read a recent Gleaner article about the album.
Record Date : 1975
Album Style : roots, instrumental
Playlist :
I Shot The Sheriff
Honey Coral Rock
Rasta
Negril
East Side West Side
Negril Sea Sunset
Red Ground Funk
Lighthouse
Engineer : Sylvan Morris
Producer : Eric Gale
Lead Guitar : Peter Tosh
Drums : Mighty Sparrow & Paul Douglas
Bass : Val Douglas & Family Man
Rhythm Guitar : Peter Tosh
Piano : Keith Sterling & Richard Tee
Organ : Leslie Butler
Synthesiser : Leslie Butler
Saxophone : Cedric Im Brooks
Percussions : Joe Higgs & Sticky & Cedric Im Brooks
Recording : Harry J (Kingston, JA)
This classic album has been out of print for many years, so you would have to purchase it through a collector, or just click here. (external site)
LEGENDARY REGGAE 
I need that album any info about more hard to find albums of Peter Tosh
The guitar work you laud is probably mostly that of Eric Gale, a fine session musician. I don’t know why you call this a Peter Tosh record since he was merely one of the session players.
You took the description from Wikipedia, but you chose to omit that the top-billed lead guitarist is Eric Gale, not Peter Tosh. Why?
“Negril is an instrumental album originally released in 1975 from a session produced, arranged and mostly composed by Eric Gale, and including some of Jamaica’s best-known musicians.”
Well, since the album is an album by Eric Gale, who has a thirty-plus year career and brilliant discography, and since the post itself is titled “Eastside Westside by Eric Gale & Peter Tosh” I’m sure most are capable of figuring out that most of the lead guitar work was Gale’s. I simply make the point that Tosh’s guitar work is featured heavily on the album (in fact, on my copy Tosh is listed as lead guitar) and that the album was re-issued as a Tosh album most likely because the average listener doesn’t know who Eric Gale is. I don’t fault Gale for using Peter’s name to sell his album. However, this is a reggae website which focuses on The Wailers. Maybe you need to visit the Eric Gale website for a different perspective? Whether it is issued as a Gale album or a Tosh album (I own the vinyl LP issued on the Klik label), it is a classic nonetheless and one of my favorites to feature Tosh.
You have it all wrong. Gale didn’t use Tosh’s name. The album was credited to “Negril” because Gale was under contract to CTI. Tosh is simply credited on the back with the other musicians. A 2008 article about the album in the Jamaica Gleaner, for which the original label owner and executive producer Michael Johnston was interviews, says, “Richard Tee, the respected American pianist, worked on one track, while Peter Tosh played rhythm guitar on I Shot the Sheriff.” There is no evidence that Tosh played on any other track. On the original release Tosh is credited with “rhythm guitar” and Gale with “lead guitar.” You can easily find the article by googling “Revisiting Eric Gale’s Negril.”
The UK release of the album and some subsequent bootlegs, have listed Tosh as playing “lead guitar,” but the original Jamaican release did not. Micron was a very small company and this was the biggest recording project in the company’s history, so I suspect Tosh’s role is clear in the founder’s mind.
I bought the LP, in Jamaica, in the 1970s. As a long-time reggae devotee, I do not hear anything that strongly suggests that Tosh played a major role, and, as I wrote, he is only mentioned as having played on one song.