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WHo was Shakespeare's Dark Lady? If you are a writer, do you have a mystery muse? What mystery muses do you ponder about writer can no longer write new pages? Black Lucy and the Bard, a ballet- with poetry from Caroline Randall Williams and score from Rhiannon Giddens, love the banjo.  Check out her score. And Claudia Monja is the lead dancer. The complete film is viewable at the link below. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2098&type=status #rmaalbc  

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Rhiannon Giddens - Way Over Yonder 2023

You're the One is the third solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens, and it received generally positive reviews from critics.

Giddens expressed that she hoped listeners would "just hear American music. Blues, jazz, Cajun, country, gospel, and rock - it's all there. They're fun songs, and I wanted them to have as much of a chance as they could to reach people who might dig them but don't know anything about what I do".

In 2023, the opera Omar, co-written by Giddens and Michael Abels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

"Way Over Yonder" received a total of 46,9% yes votes.

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A newborn grey seal pup cuddles up to its mother on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk, UK, as the pupping season begins at one the UK’s most important sites for the mammals. Almost 4,000 baby seals were born along the five-mile stretch of coast in Norfolk last year, making a record for the region. The seal population between Waxham and Winterton-on-Sea attracts thousands of visitors each winter as the young seals are weaned before re-entering the sea.

Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

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We don’t give the Carolina Chocolate Drops enough credit for pulling a Lucy Gray before Lucy Gray even existed.

For the original Hunger Games movie, they wrote a song for the Songs of District Twelve album called “Daughter’s Lament.” Much like Lucy Gray’s songs, they adapted a traditional folk song, “Young Hunting,” and turned it into a beautiful song based the story of the book (specifically Katniss’s dad’s death).

People rarely talk about their song from the album, but it’s aged the best out of all of them, and I hope more people recognize that.

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Tracklist:

Last Kind Words • Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind • Waterboy • She's Got You • Up Above My Head • Tomorrow Is My Turn • Black Is the Color • Round About the Mountain • Shake Sugaree • O Love Is Teasin' • Angel City

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

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Uncovering the History of the Banjo with Rhiannon Giddens: From African Roots to American Music

A little clip with Rhiannon who played for Beyonce's new country tunes. (She also has the country/blugrass/roots music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops)

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The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Awards recognized Jade Adia in the author category and Briana Mukodiri Uchendu in the illustrator category this year. Congratulations!

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I'm grateful that in death, I could meet you again.

Till We Meet Again 月老 2021┃Dir. Giddens Ko

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what's up

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Among the 70 Best Alt-Country Albums of All Time per Paste magazine are Hurray for the Riff Raff’s LIFE ON EARTH, Yola’s Walk Through Fire, Rhiannon Giddens’ Freedom Highway, k.d. lang’s Ingénue, Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue, Carolina Chocolate Drops' Genuine Negro Jig, Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball, and Wilco's Being There. You can see the full list here.

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Rhiannon Giddens. Photo by David McClister.

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Norfolk, UK

Amur tiger Mishka with one of her six-week-old cubs as they begin to explore their enclosure at Banham zoo

Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

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Rhiannon Giddens - Moonshiner's Daughter

I'm a moonshiner's daughter And I'll fight you if you wanna I was born to break the law If that wildcat burns blue Then you know that it is true I'll be the best damn runner you ever saw

I was born in a shack at the foot of the hill Didn't know my ma and I never will She labored two days and when it was done She died of despair 'cause I wasn't a son But I laced my boots and as I grew higher Daddy taught me all about lightning and fire I dogged that old man by the heel And when I was twelve, got behind the wheel Daddy and I, we got it real good We knew every shortcut through these woods He delivered the dew and I held the gun And he didn't much care that I wasn't a son

I'm a moonshiner's daughter And I'll fight you if you wanna I was born to break the law If that wildcat burns blue Then you know that it is true I'll be the best damn runner you ever saw

They think that they can tame me But them men can't even name me Am I girl? Am I woman? Doesn't matter, I'm the best

Daddy's luck ran out one moonless night The boys in blue had him in their sights He told me to run and I never looked back And I heard two shots on that back country track Moonshine's my blood, running through my soul And I never cared much about getting too old I burned through this life and when it's the end I'll stare death in the face just like him

I'm a moonshiner's daughter And I'll fight you if you wanna I was born to break the law If that wildcat burns blue Then you know that it is true I'll be the best damn runner you ever saw I'll be the best damn runner you ever saw

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Just the two of us...it's practically a shanty!

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Song Review: Rhiannon Giddens - “The Ballad of Sally Anne”

The banjo is great.

The drums adds extra heft.

The fiddle is simpatico.

But when Rhiannon Giddens tosses in layers of piano, horns, cello and backgrounds to the arrangement, her version of “The Ballad of Sally Anne” winds up too busy for its own good.

Giddens’ track is out to announce the April 12 arrival of My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall, which also includes contributions from Allison Russell, Valerie June, Leyla McCalla, Sunny War and others.

“Because all the singers of my songs had been white, because country has whitewashed black lives out of country space, most of my audience assumed the stars of my songs were all white,” Randall said in a statement.

“I wanted to rescue my black characters. This album does that.”

Giddens’ number serves the purpose well, but has too much going on. This is particularly disappointing as the sparse beginning reveals just how much more her version of “The Ballad of Sally Anne” could’ve been with fewer collaborators.

Grade card: Rhiannon Giddens - “The Ballad of Sally Anne” - C+

2/21/24