{"id":9441,"date":"2024-09-27T17:48:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2024-10-04T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T13:26:14","slug":"tasha-t-salutes-the-wailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9441","title":{"rendered":"Tasha T Salutes the Wailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If one is a fan of early songs by The Wailers, then <strong><em>\u2018Put it on\u2019<\/em><\/strong> should be right up their street. Recorded in 1966 as a rock steady single, it was one of the legendary group\u2019s many classic songs.<\/p>\n<p>Reggae singer Tasha T puts a fresh spin on the single, with her version released in late August. She co-produced it for her RasVive Records Inc. with Silver Diamond Productions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a song that I grew up listening to. Moreover, what I love about this song are the melody and the simplicity,\u201d said Tasha T. She felt it was important to put her stamp on <strong><em>\u2018Put it on\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which The Wailers also recorded for their 1973 Island Records album, <strong><em>\u2018Burnin\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI added a touch of my sing-jay prowess to give the song a divergent flavor,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p>Tasha T disclosed that she and Clayton Levy from Silver Diamonds Productions agreed that it would be a good idea to cover <strong><em>\u2018Put it on\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. Once that was settled, they recruited some of Jamaica\u2019s top session musicians to accompany her on the project.<\/p>\n<p>They include guitarist Steve Golding of The Fabulous Five and Roots Radics Band fame, keyboardist Paul \u201cWrong Move\u201d Crosdale of The Firehouse Crew and singer Lymie Murray, who provided harmony.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Put it on\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is the follow-up to <strong><em>\u2018Jamaica It Nice\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song Tasha T dedicated to her parents\u2019 homeland which has been the subject of negative coverage in North American media.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Toronto, Tasha T is a two-time Juno Awards nominee for Best Reggae Recording. Her hit songs include <strong><em>\u2018Fire in Me\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Dem Need More Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Educate Yourself\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one is a fan of early songs by The Wailers, then \u2018Put it on\u2019 should be right up their street. Recorded in 1966 as a rock steady single, it was one of the legendary group\u2019s many classic songs. Reggae singer Tasha T puts a fresh spin on the single, with her version released in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,239],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-9441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-news","category-international-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441","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=9441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9443,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441\/revisions\/9443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}