{"id":22169,"date":"2013-06-27T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22169"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:19:32","slug":"earth-wind-fire-to-reunite-for-first-new-album-in-8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22169","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Wind &amp; Fire To Reunite For First New Album In 8 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earth, Wind and Fire<\/strong> initially wanted to release its new album around the 2012 presidential election, but the band realized it wasn\u2019t satisfied with the songs it created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot more bells and whistles in place now and the record is better,\u201d singer <strong>Philip Bailey <\/strong>said in a recent interview. \u201c<em>Now, Then &amp; Forever,\u201d<\/em> the group\u2019s first album in eight years, will be released Sept. 10. <strong>Bailey <\/strong>said the band called co-founding member <strong>Larry Dunn<\/strong> and others to help produce its latest sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Let\u2019s go back to the drawing board,\u2019\u201d he recalled. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t sound like we\u2019re trying to be anyone other than <strong>Earth, Wind and Fire<\/strong>,\u201d added bassist <strong>Verdine White.<\/strong> The band \u2014 which includes founder <strong>Maurice White<\/strong> and <strong>Ralph Johnson<\/strong> \u2014 has worked on the album for two years.<\/p>\n<p>Its new single, <em>\u201cMy Promise,\u201d<\/em> was released Monday and was co-written by Academy Award nominee and Grammy winner <strong>Siedah Garrett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth, Wind and Fire initially wanted to release its new album around the 2012 presidential election, but the band realized it wasn\u2019t satisfied with the songs it created. \u201cWe have a lot more bells and whistles in place now and the record is better,\u201d singer Philip Bailey said in a recent interview. \u201cNow, Then &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}