In the Blossom of Their Shade

To Love or Be Alone

Home Inside

Home Inside (From "Norah Jones is Playing Along" Podcast)

From the album Tomorrow Is My Turn

The landscape of American music is littered with the ghosts of the unknowable and mysterious blues musician, scratchy voices on a 78 conjuring up an era and an energy long gone. No one represents this better, perhaps, than Geeshie Wiley, who, along with equally unknown L.V. Thomas, recorded a handful of sides for Paramount Records in 1930–31. “Last Kind Word Blues” calls to me in a way that I can’t really explain, but when producer T Bone Burnett suggested it for the record, I knew instantly it was the way to begin.

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Last Kind Words

Crosby Stills And Nash - Blackbird

Never Twice

The Old Place

Dream Café

Spring Wind

I Came to Sing the Song

Hatchet

Standing at the Sky's Edge

Don't Stare At the Sun

Which Side Are you On?

J - Ani DiFranco

Rock Bottom Rhapsody

Ain’t Comin’ Home

Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. Pitchfork has said of her “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.”

Last Kind Words

Rhiannon Giddens

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