{"id":9691,"date":"2024-11-08T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9691"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:40:01","slug":"lloyd-parks-tells-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9691","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Parks Tells his Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u2018Timeless Basslines\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, an album of songs featuring legendary musician Lloyd Parks, is scheduled for release in early 2025.\u00a0 Parks puts a fresh spin on songs he helped make classics, such as Dennis Brown\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Should I\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Two Sevens Clash\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Culture and \u2018<strong><em>Groovy Little Thing\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>by Beres Hammond.<\/p>\n<p>According to Parks, who is in his mid 70s,\u00a0\u201cThis album is like a documentary about my history and what I have done. The whole idea was to do an album where people get to know who\u00a0Lloyd\u00a0Parks\u00a0is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The self-produced project is tentatively scheduled for release in February, celebrated as Reggae Month in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>Parks\u00a0hails from Olympic Gardens, a working-class community in Kingston where drummer Sly Dunbar and fellow bassist Ranchie McLean grew up. They cut their teeth as musicians on the Red Hills Road club circuit in Jamaica\u2019s capital during the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>While not as heralded as Aston \u201cFamilyman\u201d Barrett of The Wailers and Robbie Shakespeare, Parks played on some of reggae\u2019s biggest hit songs including Al Brown\u2019s <strong><em>\u2018Here I Am Baby\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Fire Burning\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Bob Andy, <strong><em>\u2018Everything I Own\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Ken Boothe, <strong><em>\u2018How Could I Leave\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Dennis Brown and <strong><em>\u2018Girl I Love You\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Horace Andy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis album jus\u2019 tells a part of my story which goes back to the 1960s, an\u2019 later with people like Dennis Brown an\u2019 (producer) Joe Gibbs,\u201d said Parks, who has led the We The People Band since 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Timeless Basslines\u2019, an album of songs featuring legendary musician Lloyd Parks, is scheduled for release in early 2025.\u00a0 Parks puts a fresh spin on songs he helped make classics, such as Dennis Brown\u2019s \u2018Should I\u2019, \u2018Two Sevens Clash\u2019 by Culture and \u2018Groovy Little Thing\u2019 by Beres Hammond. According to Parks, who is in his mid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-9691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691","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=9691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9692,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions\/9692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}