{"id":482452,"date":"2019-02-20T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=796663"},"modified":"2019-02-20T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:10:10","slug":"bob-marleys-new-easy-skanking-video-celebrates-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/bob-marleys-new-easy-skanking-video-celebrates-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley\u2019s New \u2018Easy Skanking\u2019 Video Celebrates Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-20-at-6.26.07-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-marley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-marley\" data-tag=\"bob-marley\">Bob Marley<\/a>\u2019s native Jamaica shines in the new video for \u201cEasy Skanking,\u201d a song off 1978\u2019s <em>Kaya<\/em> that has received an updated visual to celebrate both the reggae legend\u2019s legacy and his birthplace.<\/p>\n<p>The video, directed by the Pantera production company, \u201ccaptures a loving, authentic look at a day in the life of the indefatigable, uprising spirit of the people who live, work, love, and call Jamaica their home,\u201d Universal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEasy Skanking\u201d pairs Marley\u2019s classic track with striking images of everyday life in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica. The song \u201cserves as a most wonderful audio\/visual reminder to celebrate his ongoing global legacy and in these hectic times to take a moment to slow down and \u2018take it easy,&#8217;\u201d Universal added.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2018, the Marley estate and Universal teamed for a 40th anniversary reissue of <em>Kaya<\/em> that paired the original 1978 album with a disc full of new mixes by Marley\u2019s son Stephen Marley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-marley-easy-skanking-video-796663\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Marley\u2019s native Jamaica shines in the new video for \u201cEasy Skanking,\u201d a song off 1978\u2019s Kaya that has received an updated visual to celebrate both the reggae legend\u2019s legacy and his birthplace. The video, directed by the Pantera production company, \u201ccaptures a loving, authentic look at a day in the life of the indefatigable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 07:09:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}