toots and the maytals Archive
03 Oct 2018
Toots & the Maytals: Rocking Steady for More Than a Half Century

Ask a casual music fan to name a reggae artist, and you’re likely to hear the name Bob Marley. And while it’s true that Marley and his group the Wailers were making ska and rocksteady music—two Jamaican styles that predate reggae—as early as 1963, it was the Maytals who first used the term reggae, and