If you’re listening to Reggae great Gramps Morgan’s album Positive Vibrations and you detect a definite modern Country Music sound throughout, your mind is not playing tricks on you. Industry Ink: Wynonna Judd, Jump.The Perfect Soundtrack For the Summer of 2021 – Just Add Rum and Sun.Parker McCollum Slates 41-Date ‘Burn It Down Tour’ For 2024 October 13, 2023.Mike Gossin To Release Debut Solo Project October 13, 2023.Ryan Larkins Releases Debut EP On Red Street Records October 13, 2023.Girls Write Nashville Wraps Third Annual Benefit Concert October 13, 2023.2024 Lineup Revealed For Headwaters Country Jam Montana October 13, 2023.We have reasons to unite and stand on common ground.” “I’m just bringing country music to reggae and showing them that energy while also showing my reggae fans that we have a lot more in common than we think we do. There’s always been a love and a connection between the Caribbean and country music,” he says. We all experience emotions, love, heartbreak, and advice from our moms and dads. “I tell people that country music is storytelling music. With a list of dream collaborations with the likes of Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, Chris Stapleton, and Vince Gill, to name a few, he sees the two genres as being cut from the same cloth at their core. While not a country artist, Morgan does cite Positive Vibration as a truly Nashville album and sees an avenue for the worlds of reggae and country music to collide. There’s so much to love about Nashville.”

We can start on the food alone that I fell in love with, but the city is growing. I want to be one of the voices to say we are more than just silos, cowboys, whiskey, and country music. Eight months later, he and his family made the move and haven’t looked back since. The recording process isn’t the only thing that Morgan loves about the city, though.Īfter performing at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium as support for India.Arie, Morgan knew that Nashville was going to be his home. Having that experience has changed me as a reggae artist,” he admits. For that, I tip to the city and the industry of Nashville. This recording process was such a joy, and I’ll never record the same. “I tell everybody that this project and this recording process is what makes Nashville, Nashville. I’ve had flavors of it and little sparks of it here and there, but to come in every morning like I’m going to an office and have my tea and warm my vocals was something different. “I don’t think I’ve ever had that type of experience before. “There was just such a high level of professionalism,” he puts simply. But what really set this record apart from his past efforts, Morgan explains, was the recording process-which he states is his best work to date. I think it hit a million views because everyone could identify with that message.”Īfter the song’s success, the pair began to pick up steam, releasing singles and EPs before leading up to the full-length project. After we cut it, I sent it to one radio guy to listen to and the song went viral. Over the last year there has been so much negativity and tension, and I just thought about what if we give a little more than we take, and if we try to fix more than we break?” Morgan says, “Johnny had this song called ‘People Like You’ and he wanted me to put my voice on it. Both of those losses hit me so hard, and I knew I wasn’t the only one experiencing that. “I lost my uncle David to Coronavirus as well as a huge producer and part of the Morgan Heritage journey named Bobby Digital. Recorded and produced by Johnny Reid in his Berry Hill studio, one song and a chance meeting at a Nashville Predators game got the ball rolling for the duo. Featuring a stacked list of collaborators, including Shaggy, India.Arie, Lybran (The Rum Boss), and three generations of Morgans with Denroy Morgan & Jemere Morgan, the island-infused album is a genuinely Nashville-born effort. While Morgan’s “day job” lies in Morgan Heritage, his Grammy-winning family band, the recently released 15-track Positive Vibration is his first solo project in nine years. Rather, the island-born and Nashville-based reggae artist has aimed to forge a new sound within the Nashville music scene that merges the sounds of the Caribbean with those so often heard in country music. Gramps Morgan is not the typical Music City artist that one might expect, draped in a cowboy hat and boots and toting a used six-string.

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