{"id":8956,"date":"2024-06-28T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:11:02","slug":"norris-man-is-a-free-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=8956","title":{"rendered":"Norris Man is a Free Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u2018Free Man\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, the new album from roots singer Norris Man is due for release on July 26 by Tad\u2019s International Record. It takes the market one year after <strong><em>\u2018Life\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his previous album.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-song set, produced by Tad Dawkins Jr., has a number of hardcore roots songs, driven by classic rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>The Trench Town-born Norris Man has built a reputation in the mould of roots acts from the genre\u2019s golden era of the 1970s, such as Burning Spear, Culture and Israel Vibration. He consistently releases albums and frequently tours Europe which is traditionally roots-reggae\u2019s biggest market.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for songs like <strong><em>\u2018Persistence\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Home and Away\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, he delivers on <strong><em>\u2018Free Man\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which has potent tracks such as <strong><em>\u2018Gun Hawk\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018To Jah I Pray\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Jah Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Helping him on the album are a stellar cast of musicians including drummers Sly Dunbar, Style Scott and Kirk Bennett; bass guitarists Lloyd Parks and Flabba Holt; keyboardists Robbie Lyn and Franklyn \u201cBubbla\u201d Waul; guitarists Dwight Pinkney, Andy Bassford and Winston \u201cBo Pee\u201d Bowen; saxophonist Dean Fraser, trumpeter Chico Chin and trombonist Nambo Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Norris Man\u2019s first album, \u2018<strong><em>Persistence\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, was released in 2000 by Kings of Kings Productions. It contains the title song which gave him his breakthrough<strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u2018Persistence\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>\u2018Home &amp; Away\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, released in 2005, are Norris Man\u2019s biggest singles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Free Man\u2019, the new album from roots singer Norris Man is due for release on July 26 by Tad\u2019s International Record. It takes the market one year after \u2018Life\u2019, his previous album. The 11-song set, produced by Tad Dawkins Jr., has a number of hardcore roots songs, driven by classic rhythms. The Trench Town-born Norris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8956","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\/8956","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=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8957,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/8957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}