Off-topic generalizations and recipes we got aplenty but, alas, I see the non-Bay Street Boy sources for Peas & Rice are still wanting here.

In my lifetime Harry Belafonte has gone from an appropriative sell-out to one of America's most beloved, authentic folk singers. Nothing about his music catalog changed in the interim, just the "feels."

Discography does not process emotion. That the two methods produce different music histories doesn't really surprise me in the least.