Rhiannon Giddens's new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, will be released September 18 on Nonesuch Records. The album track "Carolina Rain" is out now, along with this video by Nesp5euro:

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson perform "Rain Crow," from their album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out now on Nonesuch Records. Filmed at Joe Thompson’s home in Mebane, NC,  by Alexei Mejouev / Birdhouse Productions.

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson perform "Brown's Dream," from their album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out now on Nonesuch Records. Filmed at Joe Thompson’s home in Mebane, NC,  by Alexei Mejouev / Birdhouse Productions.

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson perform "John Henry," from their album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out now on Nonesuch Records. Filmed at Joe Thompson’s home in Mebane, NC,  by Alexei Mejouev / Birdhouse Productions.

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson perform "Molly Put the Kettle On," from their album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out now on Nonesuch Records. Filmed at Joe Thompson’s home in Mebane, NC,  by Alexei Mejouev / Birdhouse Productions.

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson perform "Country Waltz," from their albumWhat Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out now on Nonesuch Records. Filmed at Mill Prong House & Preservation in Red Springs, NC, by Alexei Mejouev / Birdhouse Productions 
 

Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson have shared “Going to Raleigh” from their upcoming album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow. Originally released in 1939 by western North Carolina string band The Carolina Playboys, this version (learned by Robinson from Evelyn Shaw) was recorded at the historic former plantation Mill Prong House & Preservation in Red Springs, NC, where they filmed a video as well. 

The first single from Silkroad and Rhiannon Giddens's upcoming album, American Railroad, is her arrangement of the traditional songs "Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man." The former is written by wrongfully imprisoned Black men and women, who unwillingly risked their lives building the Swannanoa Tunnel in Giddens's home state of North Carolina. The latter is about the folk hero John Henry.

Rhiannon Giddens joins forces with singer-songwriter Crys Matthews and the Resistance Revival Chorus—a collective of women and non-binary singers—for a reimagining of folk icon Peggy Seeger’s “How I Long for Peace” as a powerful call for community and civic engagement in partnership with Joy To The Polls and HeadCount.

Rhiannon Giddens collaborates with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project on a fundraising initiative and a powerful music video for her song “Another Wasted Life,” from her 2023 album, You're the One. The video, released on the tenth annual Wrongful Conviction Day, features twenty-two wrongfully convicted people, clients of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. It aims to raise awareness for the stories and voices of those who have experienced the injustices of the criminal legal system. Giddens filmed the video, directed by Daniel Madoff, in Philadelphia with the twenty-two formerly incarcerated people, who collectively spent more than 500 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. It features their names and the number of years that each spent wrongly incarcerated. The video was directed by Daniel Madoff. Inspired by the tragic story of Kalief Browder, a young man wrongfully incarcerated at New York City’s Rikers Island for three years, where he was subjected to nearly two years of solitary confinement, Giddens wrote “Another Wasted Life” as a reminder of the human toll exacted by wrongful convictions and the importance of prison reform.