{"id":1166,"date":"2021-04-22T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2021-05-07T19:58:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:58:19","slug":"a-reggae-virus-worth-catching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"A reggae \u2018virus\u2019 worth Catching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cReggae Virus 1st Dose\u201d, a new compilation album from Tad\u2019s International Record, is scheduled for release on June 25. It contains 14 songs from several elite artists on the same rhythm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">That rhythm is similar to the track on which Mikey Spice did the cover of Neil Diamond\u2019s \u201cI Am I Said\u201d which was a big hit for him and (the late) producer Lloyd \u201cJoe Fraser\u201d Campbell in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Co-produced by Tad \u201cJunior Tads\u201d Dawkins and Andre Lee, \u201cReggae Virus 1st Dose\u201d also includes songs like \u201cCaptured\u201d by Glen Washington, \u201cLet\u2019s Stay Together\u201d (Chezidek), \u201cNever Miss Your Wata\u201d (Screwdriver) and \u201cLove is Blind\u201d by Sanchez. Saxophonist Dean Frasier also contributes the instrumental \u201cFirst Dose\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cReggae Virus 1st Dose\u201d maintains a steady flow of releases for Tad\u2019s International Record, which has locations in Kingston, Jamaica and South Florida. Last year, the label issued albums by Chezidek (\u201cHello Africa\u201d) and Dean Frasier (\u201cNyabinghi Christmas\u201d) and has another solo set by the famed hornsman scheduled for release in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">The artists on \u2018Reggae Virus\u2019 were handpicked by Dawkins Jr and Lee. A follow-up is earmarked for early 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReggae Virus 1st Dose\u201d, a new compilation album from Tad\u2019s International Record, is scheduled for release on June 25. It contains 14 songs from several elite artists on the same rhythm. That rhythm is similar to the track on which Mikey Spice did the cover of Neil Diamond\u2019s \u201cI Am I Said\u201d which was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,237],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-music-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","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=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}