Mergia, Hailu - Pioneer Works Swing (Live) MMPO120.1

Mergia, Hailu - Pioneer Works Swing (Live) MMPO120.1It's been a little over ten years since Hailu Mergia re emerged on the international music scene. Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after many years driving a cab in Washington, DC. His first show back appeared on the front page of the New York Times along with a stellar review and he took off from there performing

Nightmares 2

reducing noise in the signal chain

Soul-Nourishing 1975 Album Includes 'Help on the Way/Slipknot

Plains began out of Crutchfield's and Williamson's mutual love for each other's music and after trading albums (Saint Cloud and Sorceress

" a Top 5 single that earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

"I almost didn't put it on the album because I thought it was missing something

4 One Day We Will All B Free

which was in peak form

With equal parts nuanced observation and raw outpouring of feeling

Cooks County

13 Let's Go Die (Live)

9 Foreplay