{"id":11520,"date":"2025-10-24T07:49:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11520"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:49:59","slug":"kingston-dubbing-with-young-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=11520","title":{"rendered":"Kingston Dubbing with Young Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dub music is no longer synonymous with the youth in Jamaica, but sibling production team Young Veterans turned back the hands of time for <strong><em>\u2018Dub Kingston\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a nine-song album released in August.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers Sheldon and Andrew Pennicott gathered contemporary and seasoned artists for the project, including Warrior King, Etana, Ginjah, Luciano, Capleton and legendary session guitarist Earl \u201cChinna\u201d Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concept for the album was a label effort. We always wanted to do a project where we would be able to showcase our live catalog and production skills,\u201d said Andrew, younger of the duo. \u201cIn selecting the tracks, we aimed for songs with a strong message that mostly speaks about the current climate of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Calling Jah in Dub\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Warrior King, <strong><em>\u2018Party N Smoke\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (Etana), <strong><em>\u2018Street Cry in Dub\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (Sizzla, Luciano and Turbulence), <strong><em>\u2018Survival in Dub\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>(Ginjah) and <strong><em>\u2018One Nation in Dub\u2019<\/em><\/strong> (Earl \u201cChinna\u201d Smith) are some of the songs on <strong><em>\u2018Dub Kingston\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dub, an echo-driven derivative of roots-reggae, rose to popularity during the 1970s through master studio engineers like Osbourne \u201cKing Tubby\u201d Ruddock and Lee \u201cScratch\u201d Perry. Almost every hit single from the 1970s in Jamaica had a dub version.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennicott brothers are from Montego Bay, Jamaica\u2019s tourism mecca. They have produced albums and songs by acts such as Ginjah, Fantan Mojah and Bunny Rugs.<\/p>\n<p>They are eyeing a diverse audience with <strong><em>\u2018Dub Kingston\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe markets we hope to reach are global reggae consumers and lovers of live and well-composed music. We hope the project can fit into a variety of playlists,\u201d said Andrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dub music is no longer synonymous with the youth in Jamaica, but sibling production team Young Veterans turned back the hands of time for \u2018Dub Kingston\u2019, a nine-song album released in August. Brothers Sheldon and Andrew Pennicott gathered contemporary and seasoned artists for the project, including Warrior King, Etana, Ginjah, Luciano, Capleton and legendary session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11520","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\/11520","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=11520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11521,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions\/11521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}