{"id":12130,"date":"2026-02-20T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:22:51","slug":"keith-and-tex-does-it-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=12130","title":{"rendered":"Keith and Tex Does it for Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran harmony duo Keith and Tex have released their latest song, a cover of Bobby Caldwell&#8217;s sultry ballad, <strong><em>&#8216;What You Won&#8217;t do For Love&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Co-produced by Carl \u201cStereo\u201d Fletcher, Basil \u201cBenbow\u201d Creary and\u00a0Keith\u00a0Rowe, their rendition was released in January.<\/p>\n<p>It was Keith\u2019s idea to cover the 1978 blue-eyed soul classic in reggae form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the songs I&#8217;ve always loved. I even went twice to see the artist before he passed on,&#8221; said Keith.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell, who died in 2023, had strong ties to Miami and Jamaicans. He was a regular session musician at producer Henry Stone&#8217;s TK Records in that city, during the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a close friend of Jamaican singer King Sporty, an influential member of the Miami reggae scene who co-wrote <strong><em>&#8216;Buffalo Soldier&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> with Bob Marley.<\/p>\n<p>Keith and Tex first came to prominence in Jamaica during the 1960s as a rock steady act who recorded mainly for producer Derrick Harriott.\u00a0 Now based in Tampa and Toronto respectively, they are best known for songs like <strong><em>&#8216;Stop That Train&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>&#8216;Don\u2019t Look Back<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>Keith and Tex are also working on a new album which will be the follow-up to &#8216;Gun Life&#8217; which was released in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran harmony duo Keith and Tex have released their latest song, a cover of Bobby Caldwell&#8217;s sultry ballad, &#8216;What You Won&#8217;t do For Love&#8217;.\u00a0 Co-produced by Carl \u201cStereo\u201d Fletcher, Basil \u201cBenbow\u201d Creary and\u00a0Keith\u00a0Rowe, their rendition was released in January. It was Keith\u2019s idea to cover the 1978 blue-eyed soul classic in reggae form. &#8220;It&#8217;s one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12130","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\/12130","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=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12131,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions\/12131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}