Mereba: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Mereba play Black Truck, Stay Tru, Dodging The Devil and Kinfolk at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: Dec 2, 2019, Rodney Carmichael Very few artists get to return to the Tiny Desk, and fewer still return twice in the same year. But after contributing background vocals behind the desk for Dreamville artist Bas in early 2019, we invited Mereba back for a solo set that puts her eclectic, majorlabel debut The Jungle Is The Only Way Out into sharp focus. I m so excited to be here with you guys, she said one song into a set that features the multiinstrumentalist alternating between keys and guitar. Wow. Dreams coming The strippeddown soundscape Mereba achieves live with her fourpiece band is equally dreamlike here, drawing from influences as wideranging as the many places she s called home (Alabama, Philly, North Carolina, Atlanta, Ethiopia). A