Weaned on roots-reggae in their hometown of Port Maria, Jamaica, Link & Chain may not be as famous some of their colleagues, but they certainly rank highly in terms of perseverance and talent.<\/p>\n
The quartet, formed in 1986, celebrate their 35th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary with Ready<\/em><\/strong> and Don\u2019t do That<\/em><\/strong>, songs released in February and July, respectively. Dwight Campbell, one of three original members, said both tracks show Link & Chain are still on top of their game after nearly four decades together. \u201cWi grow up listening to people like The Paragons, The Heptones, Alton Ellis, The Wailers. Wi stay true to dat sound in everything wi do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The past 18 months has seen Campbell and his group mates (Paul Williams, Trevor Douglas and Oniel Griffiths) collaborating with guitarist Ian \u201cBeezy\u201d Coleman, bassist Devon Bradshaw and Phillip \u201cWinta\u201d James on recording sessions, mainly out of Portland, Jamaica. Those sessions produced Ready<\/em><\/strong> and Don\u2019t do That<\/em><\/strong>. The latter is distributed by Issachar Muzik\/Tuff Gong International.<\/p>\n Link & Chain are from the seaside town of Port Maria, located in St. Mary parish, eastern Jamaica. They are one of the last groups to have worked with producer Lawrence \u201cJack Ruby\u201d Lindo, best known for producing Burning Spear\u2019s classic Marcus Garvey album. <\/em><\/strong>Lindo produced New Day<\/em><\/strong>, Link & Chain\u2019s first album, which was released in 1989 on RAS Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weaned on roots-reggae in their hometown of Port Maria, Jamaica, Link & Chain may not be as famous some of their colleagues, but they certainly rank highly in terms of perseverance and talent. The quartet, formed in 1986, celebrate their 35th\u00a0anniversary with Ready and Don\u2019t do That, songs released in February and July, respectively. Dwight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","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\/1805","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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}