User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Release Date: Apr 18, 2025
- Summary: Rhiannon Giddens joins her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson on an album of North Carolina music recorded outdoors at Joe Thompson and Etta Baker's homes as well as the former plantation Mill Prong House.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Americana
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 3 out of 4
-
Mixed: 1 out of 4
-
Negative: 0 out of 4
-
UncutApr 18, 2025The performances are entirely unmediated, taped in the open air like an old-style field recording with the cicadas and birds chirping gloriously in the background. [May 2025, p.31]
-
Apr 18, 2025The album is as raw as it gets, simply down-home porch music. .... We now have a vivid reminder of what traditional Black string music sounds like, at a time when those in power want to ignore and even erase such important legacies.
-
Apr 18, 2025With What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, Giddens and Robinson dig deep into the core Black Southern folk traditions that originally inspired them, and the joy is palpable; you can almost imagine them sitting around with Joe Thompson, smiling, and intently learning these songs.
-
MojoApr 18, 2025An album for banjo/fiddle fans and music history buffs. [May 2025, p.84]