RHIANNON GIDDENS & JUSTIN ROBINSON * WHAT DID THE BLACKBIRD SAY TO TE CROW *
Last year I spent three days in North Carolina with fellow Carolina Chocolate Drops member Justin Robinson to record 'What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow,' an album of North Carolina fiddle and banjo music, which is now coming out April 18 on Nonesuch Records. We recorded outside at Joe Thompson’s house and Etta Baker’s house - you can hear the wheat in the wind and two different broods of cicadas, which had not emerged simultaneously since 1803.
With the assaults on reality going on in the world today, we wanted to offer another kind of record, like walking back onto a gravel or dirt road while a stampede goes the other way. With the cicada choir, this record could’ve only happened at a certain time in the last 120 years. We doubled down on place, time, realness, and old-fashioned front porch music. It’s a reminder that another way exists, with music made for your community’s enjoyment and for dancing–not solely for commercial purposes.
We’re going on tour this Spring and Summer with a bigger all-acoustic band called Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue. Fan pre-sale for the tour begins tomorrow at 11am local time - go to rhiannongiddens.com/tour now to receive the pre-sale code.
Pre-save/Pre-order 'What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow' here: https://giddensrobinson.lnk.to/BlackbirdCrow
Photography by Karen Cox
Edited to add: dang, wrong anout the double brood evidently, this brood was just REALLY LOUD/ Artist Facebook
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