{"id":10945,"date":"2025-07-04T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10945"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:52:09","slug":"wildfire-records-is-a-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10945","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Records is a champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia-based label, Wildfire Records, released two hefty compilation albums in June \u2014 <strong><em>\u2018Champion Album\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Ready fi di World, Vol. 3\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. They contain songs by seasoned singers from Jamaica including Glen Ricks, Roland Burrell and Ian Sweetness as well as Shan Bam, an artist from the City of Brotherly Love.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anthony Messam, the Jamaican producer who founded Wildfire Records over 35 years ago, the songs on both albums were recorded several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s full time for this to come out, the long wait is over. I put in a lotta work on this project,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ricks, a highly rated singer who made his name as a soul artist in Canada during the 1970s, appears four times on <strong><em>\u2018Champion Album\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which has 23 songs. One of them is a cover of Freddie Jackson\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Rock me Tonight\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which he does as <strong><em>\u2018Rock With me Tonight\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An updated version of \u2018Johnny Dollar\u2019 is Burrell\u2019s lone contribution to the album. He had a big hit with that song in 1982; it is a cover of American soul singer Garnet Mimms\u2019 <strong><em>\u2018A Quiet Place\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Sweetness has four songs on \u2018<strong><em>Ready fi di World, Vol. 3\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which also has 23 tracks. His contributions include a cover of <strong><em>\u2018Ain\u2019t That Loving You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, made popular in Jamaica by Alton Ellis and Dennis Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Shan Bam, an American singer with Jamaican roots, is featured on five collaborations including <strong><em>\u2018Still in Love with You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, with Nate the Great. It is a remake of the Alton Ellis rock steady classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia-based label, Wildfire Records, released two hefty compilation albums in June \u2014 \u2018Champion Album\u2019 and \u2018Ready fi di World, Vol. 3\u2019. They contain songs by seasoned singers from Jamaica including Glen Ricks, Roland Burrell and Ian Sweetness as well as Shan Bam, an artist from the City of Brotherly Love. According to Anthony Messam, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10945","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\/10945","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=10945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}