Rhiannon Giddens
Greensboro - North Carolina - United States
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Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician, actress, and author known for her eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the group Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she was the lead singer and played fiddle and banjo.
Giddens is from Greensboro, North Carolina. In addition to her work with the Grammy-winning Chocolate Drops, Giddens has released seven solo albums including: Tomorrow Is My Turn (2015) and Freedom Highway (2017); 2021's There Is No Other and They're Calling Me Home (both collaborations with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi); You're the One (2023). She appears in the Smithsonian Folkways collection documenting Mike Seeger's final trip through Appalachia in 2009, Just Around The Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Styles – Mike Seeger's Last Documentary (2019).
In 2014, Giddens participated in the T Bone Burnett-produced project The New Basement Tapes, along with several other musicians, which set a series of recently discovered Bob Dylan lyrics to newly composed music. The resulting album, Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, was in the Billboard top 40. She worked on the song "Mountain Hymn" for the popular video game Red Dead Redemption 2.
In 2023, the opera Omar, co-written by Giddens and Michael Abels, won a Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Discography
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Hope is the Thing with FeathersLabel: Nonesuch Genres: Folk Styles: Contemporary Folk Songs on the Album
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What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow
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| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
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| 1 | Rain Crow - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 2 | Brown's Dream - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 3 | Hook and Line - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 4 | Pumpkin Pie - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 5 | Duck's Eyeball - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 6 | Ryestraw - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 7 | Little Brown Jug - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 8 | Going to Raleigh - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 9 | Country Waltz - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 10 | Molly Put the Kettle on - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 11 | Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 12 | John Henry - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 13 | Love Somebody - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 14 | Ebenezer - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 15 | Old Joe Clark - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 16 | Old Molly Hare - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 17 | Marching Jaybird - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 18 | Walkin' in the Parlor - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
You're the One
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Label: Nonesuch
Genres: Folk
Styles: Contemporary Folk
Songs on the Album
| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
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| 1 | Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 2 | You're the One - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 3 | Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell) - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 4 | Wrong Kind of Right - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 5 | Another Wasted Life - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 6 | You Louisiana Man - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 7 | If You Don’t Know How Sweet It is - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 8 | Hen in the Foxhouse - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 9 | Who Are You Dreaming of - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 10 | You Put the Sugar in My Bowl - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 11 | Way over Yonder - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 12 | Good Ol' Cider - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
They're Calling Me Home
Label: Nonesuch
Genres: Folk
Styles: Contemporary Folk
Songs on the Album
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There is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi)
Label: Nonesuch
Genres: Folk
Styles: Contemporary Folk
Songs on the Album
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Freedom Highway
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Label: Nonesuch
Genres: Folk
Styles: Contemporary Folk
Songs on the Album
| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
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| 1 | At the Purchaser's Option - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 3 | Julie - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 4 | Birmingham Sunday - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 5 | Better Get It Right the First Time - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 6 | We Could Fly - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 7 | Hey Bébé - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 8 | Come Love Come - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 9 | The Love We Almost Had - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 10 | Baby Boy - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 11 | Following the North Star - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 12 | Freedom Highway - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
Tomorrow is My Turn
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Label: Nonesuch
Genres: Country, Folk
Styles: Americana Country, Contemporary Folk
Songs on the Album
| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
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| 1 | Last Kind Words - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 2 | Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 3 | Waterboy - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 4 | She's Got You - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 5 | Up Above My Head - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 6 | Tomorrow is My Turn - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 7 | Black is the Color - | Americana Country | Country |
| 8 | Round About the Mountain - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 9 | Shake Sugaree - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 10 | O Love is Teasin' - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |
| 11 | Angel City - | Contemporary Folk | Folk |