Rhiannon Giddens is as much scholar as musician. Now, she's showing her saucy side in a new album
NEW YORK — Most people familiar with singer Rhiannon Giddens know her scholarly side.
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NEW YORK — Most people familiar with singer Rhiannon Giddens know her scholarly side.
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On her first album of all original songs, the folk polyglot seeks livelier rhythms and vocal styles infused with jazz, country, and zydeco.
Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by Grace Potter, Karina Rykman, Rhiannon Giddens, Jon Batiste, Mapache, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mr. Greg & Cass McCombs, and DeYarmond Edison.
Most people familiar with singer Rhiannon Giddens know her scholarly side. Earlier this year, she earned a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the opera “Omar," about an enslaved Muslim man who lived in Charleston, South Carolina. The disc is the most broadly inviting work of Giddens' career, a potent stew of folk, country, rock, soul and Cajun steered by producer Jack Splash, who has worked with Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Solange Knowles and Kendrick Lamar.