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Rhiannon Giddens, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Grammy Award-profitable Carolina Chocolate Drops, makes her solo recording debut with Tomorrow Is My Turn, due out February 10, 2015, on Nonesuch Records. (The vinyl will comply with on March A.) The album was produced by T Bone Burnett.
Burnett first labored with Giddens when she carried out final fall at a live performance he curated at New York City s Town Hall that was later broadcast on Showtime: Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis. Backstage, Burnett was instantly moved to ask if he might produce a report together with her. It was clear the primary time I heard her at rehearsal that Rhiannon is subsequent in an extended line of singers that embrace Marian Anderson, Odetta, Mahalia Jackson, Rosetta Tharpe, Burnett says. We want that individual in our tradition.
For her first solo disc, Giddens selected a broad vary of songs from genres as numerous as gospel, jazz, blues, and nation. In addition to the normal Black Is the Color, tracks embrace Hank Cochran s She s Got You, made well-known by Patsy Cline; Dolly Parton s Don’t Let It Trouble Your Mind ; S Love Is Teasin , popularized by the Kentucky-reared mom of folks Jean Ritchie; and Elizabeth Cotton s Shake Sugaree.
I had already began placing collectively an inventory of songs that didn t actually match into the Chocolate Drops world, Giddens explains. At the highest was Tomorrow Is My Turn [immortalized by Nina Simone]. Seeing Nina do it on YouTube was revelatory. I knew she d gone by means of loads of exhausting occasions, as so many individuals did in that point interval. Watching her sing this music, with the phrases tomorrow is my flip, I started to consider the wrestle of her and ladies like her. The significance of this music led Giddens to make it the title of the album as nicely. Other songs began getting on my record they usually have been all by ladies or interpreted by ladies, she says.
Tomorrow Is My Turn was recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville, with a multi-generational group of gamers whom Burnett assembled. Among them are fiddle participant Gabe Witcher and double bassist Paul Kowert of label-mates Punch Brothers; percussionist Jack Ashford of Motown s famend Funk Brothers; drummer Jay Bellerose; guitarist Colin Linden; legendary backup singer Tata Vega; veteran Nashville session bassist Dennis Crouch; and Giddens Drops touring band-mates, multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins and beat-boxer Adam Matta.
Tomorrow Is My Turn follows Giddens work with Elvis Costello, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James, and Marcus Mumford on Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, an album additionally produced by Burnett that was launched in November 2014. Her contribution was hailed by Rolling Stone journal because the showstopper…evoking antebellum blues with a powerful voice that interrogates the myths stirred up at Big Pink. The New York Times agreed, saying On lead vocals she s the album s revelation, singing melodies that hark again to Celtic modes with a decisive presence and a haunting grace.
