{"id":9962,"date":"2025-01-03T11:55:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:55:18","slug":"elihu-morris-breaks-his-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9962","title":{"rendered":"Elihu Morris Breaks his Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he first met musician\/producer Andrew \u201cBassie\u201d Campbell in 1989, Elihu Morris discovered they had instant synergy. That chemistry can be heard on <strong><em>\u2018Broken Silence\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Morris\u2019 first album which was released last September.<\/p>\n<p>The duo co-produced the 13-song set which contains the title track, and the previously released <strong><em>\u2018On Your Side of Town\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and \u2018<strong><em>How You Cold So\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a strong album, wi have a lot to say and dat\u2019s what wi did. Wi spent a lotta time on di album, no rush thing,\u201d said Morris.<\/p>\n<p>Production on the album started in 2014, four years after the release of the EP, <strong><em>\u2018The Evolution of Elihu Morris\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. For \u2018<strong><em>Broken Silence\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Campbell meticulously selected the musicians he believed would do the artist justice.<\/p>\n<p>They include veteran keyboardist Franklin \u201cBubbler\u201d Waul and guitarist Dalton Browne, who have played on hit songs by Dennis Brown, Freddie McGregor, Black Uhuru and Judy Mowatt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith di kinda songs wi have, wi had to get di right people to suit their message. I think we achieved dat,\u201d said Campbell, a bass guitarist who was part of Junior Reid\u2019s One Blood band for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Morris was raised in the Craig Town community of Kingston, which is a stone\u2019s throw from the fabled Trench Town, former stomping ground for legends like The Wailers and The Heptones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he first met musician\/producer Andrew \u201cBassie\u201d Campbell in 1989, Elihu Morris discovered they had instant synergy. That chemistry can be heard on \u2018Broken Silence\u2019, Morris\u2019 first album which was released last September. The duo co-produced the 13-song set which contains the title track, and the previously released \u2018On Your Side of Town\u2019 and \u2018How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9962","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\/9962","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=9962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9963,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions\/9963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}