Marley is widely regarded as 'white man reggae' - he was packaged and sold very much in the fashion of Rock musicians back then.
No black kid in the UK would give it space (you had to be there).
Reggae is a HUGE subject - cast around & see what you are comfortable with. The 'early' artist stuff is sometimes amazing - listen to Ken Boothe, Ernie Smith, Errol George, the Skatalites, Mighty Diamonds, U Roy/I Roy (different people) - Max Romeo, Hopetown Lewis...I ran and played reggae sound in the 60s & 70s - explore the progression, from calypso to ska, through Blue Beat to soca to rock steady to 'commercial' reggae (think Desmond Dekker, Bob & Marcia, Althea & Donna)- it's an interesting journey - I wish you well (and I haven't touched on heavy dub yet).
Granted the early stuff with Peter Tosh is very good, but this has been almost lost along the way (I also have Marley with Bunny Wailer, somewhere) - I'm sure that the Skatalites were the Band of Choice in JA at one point.......
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