{"product_id":"reggae_send-i-a-lion-a-nighthawk-reggae-joint_2019_ber","title":"SEND I A LION A NIGHTHAWK REGGAE JOINT","description":"First Nighthawk Records Retrospective. Curated by Original Nighthawk Producer Leroy Jodie Pierson. Leroy Jodie Pierson started Nighthawk Records in 1974 with a series of classic blues compilations. By 1979 he had sold the label to Robert Schoenfeld and was in Kingston, Jamaica, producing records for the now Schoenfeld-funded label. Each had found their calling, Pierson the more creative and Schoenfeld more business-oriented. Nighthawk went on to release albums from artists such as ‘Gladiators’, ‘Ethiopians’, ‘Junior Byles’, ‘Justin Hinds’, ‘Winston Jarrett’, ‘Itals’, ‘Ronnie Davis’ and more. Now, for the first time, Pierson has retrospectively curated what serves as a best-of sampler of his work for Nighthawk. ‘Send I A Lion: A Nighthawk Reggae Joint, brought to you by Leroy Jodie Pierson’ compiles favorites from the label's acclaimed albums, with non-LP cuts from ‘The Mighty Diamonds’, ‘Morwells’ and ‘The Wailing Souls’, and includes a previously unreleased hotel room audition recording from ‘The Mighty Diamonds’, “4000 Years.” “We hadn't contacted The Mighty Diamonds, they just came by the hotel one night. Their lead singer, Tabby, brought a shredded string guitar with only four strings and started playing the chords for \"4000 Years,\" which they played as an audition with Bunny Diamond providing rhythm played on the back of a telephone directory. We agreed to record the song with Roots Radics,” Pierson writes of the audition. Pierson also includes photos from his personal collection and new liner notes.","brand":"REGGAE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55306935042392,"sku":null,"price":23921968.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0816651018079_763d98ac-0f10-4375-b771-f2b21dcd0545.jpg?v=1760294037","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/reggae_send-i-a-lion-a-nighthawk-reggae-joint_2019_ber","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}