"INGLAN IS A BITCH: ROOTS BANDS" 

Reggae Music was very much a Studio Music, and fact it still is. In Jamaica, most Reggae Bands were simply Studio Bands and artists like vocalists and Dub engineer would work on the material played by these bands. The bands themselves therefore had a repertoire of more often than not 1000's of tracks.

Bob Marley changed this concept significantly, when he combined American/UK based concepts of bands with repertoires and albums with additional touring schedules with his Jamaican Reggae roots. The rest is history and doesn't have to be repeated here.

Bob Marley's success gave birth to a lot of Reggae bands, especially in the UK. In the late 1970's, this movement was already established, as the five excellent examples in this podcast show. 

PLAYLIST

1. Za-ion & Half way to Za-ion - The 4th Street Orchestra (1976) 
2. Sticks man - Black Slate (1976) 
3. Black Star Liner - Reggae Regular (1978) 
4. Smoking My Ganja - Capital Letters (1978) 
5. Drum And Bass Line" - Aswad (1979)

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