{"id":483934,"date":"2019-03-27T08:57:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=812956"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:57:19","slug":"zak-starkey-previews-new-reggae-label-trojan-jamaica-with-black-uhuru-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/zak-starkey-previews-new-reggae-label-trojan-jamaica-with-black-uhuru-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Starkey Previews New Reggae Label Trojan Jamaica With Black Uhuru Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mykal-rose-trojan-jamaica.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/zak-starkey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zak-starkey\" data-tag=\"zak-starkey\">Zak Starkey<\/a> \u2014 musician and son of Ringo Starr \u2014 and his Sshh bandmate Sharna \u201cSshh\u201d Liguz teamed with Eddie Vedder and a slew of reggae legends, including Wailers drummer Carlton \u201cSanta Davis,\u201d to record a cover of Bob Marley\u2019s \u201cGet Up Stand Up.\u201d The track made its way back to Jamaica, earning Starkey and Liguz an invitation to perform at the opening of the Peter Tosh Museum, in Kingston. Since then, the pair have returned regularly to the island, working closely with local musicians and concocting plans for a new reggae label, Trojan Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had recorded over 40 songs and decided to start a label in Jamaica to release them,\u201d Starkey tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> of how the project came about. \u201cWe had a logo, but no name. Turned out nobody owned the rights to Trojan Records in the West Indies, so we got it and took it home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Trojan Jamaica\u2019s first project will be <em>Red, Gold, Green and Blue<\/em>, a compilation featuring reggae artists covering classic American soul, R&amp;B and blues tunes (the original Trojan Records was famous for its reggae compilations). To preview the album, Trojan Jamaica shared Mykal Rose\u2019s (Black Uhuru) cover of Screamin\u2019 Jay Hawkins\u2019 seminal 1956 cut, \u201cI Put a Spell On You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The track finds Rose and his collaborators, the producer Youth (U2, Paul McCartney), rhythm duo Sly and Robbie and guitarist Ernest Ranglin, flattening the punch of Screamin\u2019 Jay\u2019s original into a menacing groove. An accompanying video offers a behind-the-scenes look at the recording session, which Rose tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> was \u201cspur of the moment,\u201d with much of the song recorded live.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/41OQz3I0wh8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rose \u2013 who\u2019s also working on a new album, <em>Ska, Ska, Ska<\/em> \u2013 says recording such a famous blues song like \u201cI Put a Spell on You\u201d was a different experience for him, but notes the tremendous influence that the genre has always had on reggae. \u201cWe always liked blues,\u201d he says. \u201cThat is how we get the feel because blues and reggae and rock music is similar with energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with Rose\u2019s cover of \u201cI Put a Spell on You,\u201d <em>Red, Gold, Green and Blue<\/em> will feature artists like Toots and the Maytals, Freddie McGregor, Phylea Carley, Kiddus I, Andrew Tosh and Robbie Shakespeare covering songs by Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Howlin\u2019 Wolf and more. The session musicians include Starkey (guitar), Shakespeare (bass), Sly Dunbar (drums), Tony Chin (guitar), Cyril Neville (drums), Michael Rendall (keyboards, organ) and Leroy \u201cHorsemouth\u201d Wallace (drums, organ).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Starkey says the idea behind <em>Red, Gold, Green and Blue<\/em> was to have \u201cblues lyrics cut Jamaica style.\u201d He continues, \u201cWe took our favorite blues lyrics to Jamaica and matched them to the voices we thought would fit the song and the song\u2019s message, then presented each singer with two or three choices which were all accepted and worked up in the studio. All except Andrew Tosh, who brought \u2018Don\u2019t Go No Further\u2019 and Robbie Shakespeare, who brought \u2018Bring It On Home.\u2019 The best moment was Toots agreeing to \u2018Man Of The World\u2019 by Peter Green.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Starkey adds that Trojan Jamaica is already prepping a sequel to <em>Red, Gold, Green and Blue<\/em>, alongside a compilation centered around the famed singer and toasting pioneer, U-Roy. The label also plans to put out records by up-and-coming Jamaican artists, such as Big Youth and Jesse Royal, while Starkey and Sshh are collaborating with some artists on a remix collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/zak-starkey-black-uhuru-trojan-jamaica-812956\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Zak Starkey \u2014 musician and son of Ringo Starr \u2014 and his Sshh bandmate Sharna \u201cSshh\u201d Liguz teamed with Eddie Vedder and a slew of reggae legends, including Wailers drummer Carlton \u201cSanta Davis,\u201d to record a cover of Bob Marley\u2019s \u201cGet Up Stand Up.\u201d The track made its way back to Jamaica, earning [&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-483934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 03:32:47","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\/483934","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=483934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}