Santa Cruz' Saadi Halil finally released his long anticipated, proper full-length Before I Head Out Again on March 20 via Soul Without Borders Publishing. The album was several years in the making, with Halil releasing at least one of the tracks (lead single "Delta Riders") on 2007's Sonny Boy Blue (a collection of early recordings circulated among friends and family on burned CD-Rs) and as a stand-alone single last year. Halil's music is truly something to behold. Spanning "Delta blues, Spanish Cumbia, Portuguese love songs, Swahili songs of freedom, and more," his sound is well-developed and unique, exhibiting a myriad [...]