{"id":113659,"date":"2015-05-22T15:08:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T20:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingston12.net\/?p=113659"},"modified":"2015-05-22T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T20:08:16","slug":"morgan-heritage-gone-strictly-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2015\/05\/22\/morgan-heritage-gone-strictly-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Heritage Gone Strictly Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am tempted to say they are back, but that wouldn\u2019t be true. <strong>Morgan Heritage<\/strong> never really went anywhere. They just keep putting out great music. \u00a0This latest album \u2013 <em>Strictly Roots<\/em> include collaborations with several artists including <strong>Cronixx<\/strong><em> (<\/em><em>Child of Jah<\/em><em>)<\/em><strong><em>, <\/em>Young Jo Mersa Marley<\/strong><em> (Light it Up), <\/em><strong>Shaggy<\/strong><em> (Keep On Jammin)<\/em>, <strong>Bobby Lee<\/strong> (<em>We are Warriors<\/em>), <strong>Eric Rachmany \u2013 Rebelution<\/strong> (<em>Wanna Be Loved)<\/em> and <strong>J Boog &amp; Young Jemere Morgan<\/strong> on <em>So Amazing<\/em>. The 13-track CD was released on April 20 on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CTBC Music Group<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am tempted to say they are back, but that wouldn\u2019t be true. Morgan Heritage never really went anywhere. They just keep putting out great music. \u00a0This latest album \u2013 Strictly Roots include collaborations with several artists including Cronixx (Child of Jah), Young Jo Mersa Marley (Light it Up), Shaggy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","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":[59,175,114,115,116,203,128,163],"tags":[454,472,557],"class_list":["post-113659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-ctbc-music-group","category-new-music","category-new-release","category-new-releases","category-new-releases-news","category-reggae","category-world-music","tag-morgan-heritage","tag-new-release","tag-strictly-roots","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/morgan-heritage-strictly-roots-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113660,"url":"https:\/\/kingston12.net\/2020\/2015\/05\/22\/original-bad-boys-are-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":113659,"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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