Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson - What Did The Blackbird Say To The Crow - Import Vinyl LP Record

Credits:

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson

Description:

Rhiannon Giddens is a gifted musician who has taken the history of American roots music into her own hands to weave the future of American music. She has returned to her roots and revived the roots music of her native North Carolina with her friend Justin Robinson of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The album "WHAT DID THE BLACKBIRD SAY TO THE CROW" was completed to connect the tradition to the future. Analog LP is also released at the same time. Rhiannon Giddens, a singer/songwriter/performer who has won a Grammy, a MacArthur Award, and most recently a Pulitzer Prize, is the intellectual voice of American music. She is a gifted performer and singer who has taken the history of roots music and spun its future into her own. Her latest project is "What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow," a collaboration with Carolina Chocolate Drops ally Justin Robinson. Produced by Giddens himself and audio engineer, bassist, and studio owner Joe "Joe Bass" DeJarnette, the 18-song album is a collection of Giddens and Robinson's North Carolina musical heritage. Although both are multi-instrumentalists, Giddens plays banjo on this album, while Robinson primarily plays fiddle. The core of the album is a collection of songs learned from their musical mentor, North Carolina Piedmont blues legend Joe Thompson, who was one of the last of the Black String Band tradition, as well as from fellow Piedmont bluesman Etta Giddens, who was a member of the Black String Band for many years. I learned many of the songs from listening to Etta Baker, a Piedmont Blues legend who was one of the last of the Black String Band tradition. The album was recorded in the gardens of Joe Thompson and Etta Baker's North Carolina home and at Mill Prong House, a historic plantation site in North Carolina. Recorded in a natural setting with two folding chairs and several microphones, the album also includes the sound of cicadas from the first periodic cicada outbreak since 1803, creating a once-in-a-generation soundscape. With all the attacks on reality happening in the world today, we wanted to offer a different kind of album, something that would be like walking back down a gravel road or an unpaved path while many are going in the opposite direction," Giddens said of the album.The chorus of cicadas made this album a work that could only have happened at one point in the last 120 years." We have enhanced the time, the place, the realism, and the music of the old-fashioned front porch. It is a reminder that there exists another way in which music is not solely for commercial purposes, but was created for the enjoyment and dancing of the community" (1/2).

Tracklisting:

1.Rain Crow
2.Brown's Dream
3.Hook and Line
4.Pumpkin Pie
5.Duck's Eyeball
6.Ryestraw
7.Little Brown Jug
8.Going to Raleigh
9.Country Waltz
1.Molly Put the Kettle On
2.Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
3.John Henry
4.Love Somebody
5.Ebenezer
6.Old Joe Clark
7.Old Molly Hare
8.Marching Jaybird
9.Walkin' in the Parlor