{"id":113656,"date":"2015-05-22T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingston12.net\/?p=113656"},"modified":"2015-05-22T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:17:08","slug":"barrington-levy-releases-acoustic-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2015\/05\/22\/barrington-levy-releases-acoustic-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrington Levy Releases Acoustic Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barrington (Double Trouble) Levy has ventured out where not many reggae artists have gone \u2013 releasing an all-acoustic album. The 15-cut album entitled <strong>AcousticLevy<\/strong> include several of the artist\u2019s mega hits done in acoustic style. Among the tracks are anthems such as <em>Murderer, Under Mi Sensi, Prison Oval, Teach the Youth<\/em> and <em>Black Roses.<\/em> The album was released on May 5th \u2013 on the <strong>Tafari Records<\/strong> label.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/AcousticLevy-seedless-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-113662 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/AcousticLevy-seedless-1.jpg\" alt=\"AcousticLevy-seedless\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/AcousticLevy-seedless-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/AcousticLevy-seedless-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/AcousticLevy-seedless-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/AcousticLevy-seedless-1-370x370.jpg 370w, https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/AcousticLevy-seedless-1-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrington (Double Trouble) Levy has ventured out where not many reggae artists have gone \u2013 releasing an all-acoustic album. The 15-cut album entitled AcousticLevy include several of the artist\u2019s mega hits done in acoustic style. Among the tracks are anthems such as Murderer, Under Mi Sensi, Prison Oval, Teach the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[166,59,173,114,116,128,149,163],"tags":[242,243,268,474,528,563],"class_list":["post-113656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-artists","category-caribbean-music","category-new-music","category-new-releases","category-reggae","category-tafari-record","category-world-music","tag-acoustic","tag-acousticlevy","tag-barringon-levy","tag-new-releases","tag-seedless","tag-tafari-records","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/AcousticLevy_feb-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113660,"url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2015\/05\/22\/original-bad-boys-are-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":113656,"position":0},"title":"Original Bad Boys are back","author":"Sydney","date":"May 22, 2015","format":"audio","excerpt":"Inner Circle, the original bad boys of reggae music are back with an 8-track EP on their original Tenement Yard Riddim. \u00a0It features several artists including \u2013 Chronixx, Jesse Royal, Bugle, Assassin, Tanya Stephens and Daniel (Bambaata) Marley. 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