"In the imagination of many, the history of Jamaica begins with Bob Marley and the Wailers—musical priests who appear magically out of a foggy, forgotten Isle. With Chris Blackwell’s business acumen and guidance, the story goes, Marley’s native wisdom and lyrics spread like ganja smoke through the Caribbean and the world. The Natural Mystics, a well-written new book (due out next month) by Colin Grant, a BBC writer with Jamaican ancestry, challenges this narrative. Grant zooms in on the personal origins of Bob, Bunny Livingston and Peter Tosh, providing nuance and political, economic and psychological context to their development. He reroutes the rise of the Wailers and redistributes the weight of their success to their earlier struggles and interactions."
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