{"id":1996,"date":"2021-09-03T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2021-09-03T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:14:58","slug":"george-nooks-lives-through-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"George Nooks lives through it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Through it All<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the new album from George Nooks, is scheduled for release on October 1st by Tad&#8217;s International Record. The set, which is produced by the veteran singer, has 13 songs. Most are covers of gospel classics like <\/span><b><i>Amazing Grace<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but Nooks shows his skill as a writer on\u00a0<\/span><b><i>Prodigal Son<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><b><i>Nuh Badda Worry<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His latest work is a contrast to <\/span><b><i>For You<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> his previous album which came out in 2018. That was a collection of lovers rock ballads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;You have to do a mixture of songs &#8217;cause the fans don&#8217;t like the same thing,&#8221; said Nooks. <\/span><b><i>Through it All<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a return to the gospel sound that has won new fans in the secular and Christian arenas. That trend started in 2001 with <\/span><b><i>God is Standing By<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his reggae cover of a minor hit by Al Green. Nooks&#8217; version was a monster hit in Jamaica. It gave Nooks his first hit in nearly 20 years and helped relaunch a promising career that began in the mid-1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Late that decade, he had hits like <\/span><b><i>Tribal War<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b><i>Left with A Broken Heart<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for producer Joe Gibbs. Nooks credits his inspirational songs for transforming lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve met people who say they heard <\/span><b><i>God is Standing By<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a dance and it changed their life. No matter what the sound, God is love,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through it All, the new album from George Nooks, is scheduled for release on October 1st by Tad&#8217;s International Record. The set, which is produced by the veteran singer, has 13 songs. Most are covers of gospel classics like Amazing Grace, but Nooks shows his skill as a writer on\u00a0Prodigal Son\u00a0and\u00a0Nuh Badda Worry. His latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","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\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}