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.

Rhiannon Giddens' “Yet to Be,” from her 2023 album, You're the One, features Jason Isbell and tells the story of a Black woman and an Irish man falling in love in America. Giddens chose to collaborate with Isbell for his steadfast advocacy and support for Black women in the industry, admiring both his singing and his character. Video by Robert Edridge-Waks with original visuals from Library of Congress, National Archives, State Library and Archives of Florida, National Library of Ireland, and Prelinger Archives.

The video for Rhiannon Giddens' “You Louisiana Man,” from her 2023 album, You're the One, was filmed while the album was being recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami. The song blends Giddens’ celebrated voice and banjo work with horns, organ, fiddle, and accordion to create a Zydeco-funk jam. “This was the first song we recorded together in the studio,” Giddens says, “and it was the one that set the tone for the rest of the week. Like kids on the first day of school, we were feeling out everyone in the room musically, and in that moment it all clicked. My folks, Jack’s folks - we all listened to each other and found this beautiful place at the center of all our different sounds.” The video is filmed and edited by Torrance Hill for Noir Prism.

Rhiannon Giddens shares a lyric video for the title track to her 2023 album, You're the One. The song was inspired by a moment Giddens had with her son not long after he was born (he's now ten years old, and she has a fourteen-year-old daughter as well). “Your life has changed forever, and you don't know it until you're in the middle of it and it hits you,” Giddens says. “I held his little cheek up to my face, and was just reminded, 'Oh my God, my children—they have every bit of my heart.'”

Rhiannon Giddens performs "Si Dolce è'l Tormento" with Francesco Turrisi, from their 2021 album They're Calling Me Home. The video was filmed by Laura Sheeran at Hellfire Studio in Dublin.