"Her new album is a true love letter to her North Carolina roots," Jenn White, host of NPR's 1A, says of her guest Rhiannon Giddens and her new album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, with Justin Robinson, who also joins the conversation and performs with Giddens on the show. Giddens was also on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to discuss the album. You can hear both here.
"Rhiannon Giddens's new album is a true love letter to her North Carolina roots and also features former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson," Jenn White, host of NPR's 1A, says of her guests. They discuss the new album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, which features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle playing eighteen of their favorite North Carolina tunes, and the late mentor from whom they learned many of them, the legendary North Carolina Piedmont musician Joe Thompson, and the two musicians perform some of that music. You can hear the episode here via NPR, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts:
Giddens was also a guest on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to talk with presenter Nick Ahad about the album, Joe Thompson, and another musical hero, the late Etta Baker, and more. You can hear their conversation and songs from the record here via Spotify and Apple Podcasts:
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