{"id":10869,"date":"2025-06-20T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:22:58","slug":"a-bunny-wailer-classic-turns-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10869","title":{"rendered":"A Bunny Wailer Classic Turns 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u2018Crucial! Roots Classics\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, the Grammy-winning album by Bunny Wailer, has been re-released by DubShot Records to mark its 30th anniversary. It is part of a distribution agreement between that New York-based company and the singer\u2019s Solomonic Productions.<\/p>\n<p>The digitally remastered 14-song set was released on May 5. It earned Wailer, who died in 2021, the second of his three Best Reggae Grammy awards in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Schlarb, one of the principals at DubShot Records, explained how the label got involved with the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had done some distribution for Bunny Wailer prior to his passing. During that time, I developed a friendship with Jah B\u2019s son, Asadenaki Wailer aka Naki. I invited him to collaborate as an artist on a production I was doing with a California-based singer named Vana Liya called \u2018Future Sound of Reggae\u2019,\u201d said Schlarb. \u201cWe kept in touch, and he reached out to me when he was looking for a partner to distribute the Solomonic Productions catalog after Bunny\u2019s transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Crucial! Roots Classics\u2019<\/em><\/strong> contains <strong><em>\u2018Crucial\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song that summed up social turmoil in Jamaica leading up to a general election there in 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Boderation\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Trouble on The Road\u2019<\/em><\/strong> are other songs on the album, which was initially distributed by Shanachie Records, another American company.<\/p>\n<p>Bunny Wailer won his first Grammy Award in 1991 for <strong><em>\u2018Time Will Tell<\/em>\u2019:<\/strong> A Tribute to Bob Marley\u2019 which was also distributed by Shanachie Records. In 1997, he won for <strong><em>\u2018Hall of Fame\u2019:<\/em><\/strong> A Tribute to Bob Marley\u2019s 50th Anniversary\u2019, distributed by RAS Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Crucial! Roots Classics\u2019, the Grammy-winning album by Bunny Wailer, has been re-released by DubShot Records to mark its 30th anniversary. It is part of a distribution agreement between that New York-based company and the singer\u2019s Solomonic Productions. The digitally remastered 14-song set was released on May 5. It earned Wailer, who died in 2021, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10870,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions\/10870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}