Rhiannon Giddens

Amanda Palmer & Rhiannon Giddens “It’s A Fire” – Listen

September 29, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Amanda “F@cking” Palmer and Rhiannon “I accept this award” Giddens have teamed up to record a version of the Portishead song ‘It’s a Fire‘ to raise money to support the Free Black University Fund. The song […]

Ben Harper & Rhiannon Giddens “Black Eyed Dog” – Listen

August 11, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

A collaboration between two artists who really do require no introduction – but when has that ever stopped us ? Ben Harper of rootsy blues fame, and also noted for work with legends such as Mavis […]

Ten americana songs of protest

June 16, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

An infamous Mancunian once thought that if you played the acoustic guitar, it meant you were a protest singer. Whilst the playing of that instrument may not earn you the right to musical protestation, the artists […]

RS Country looks at the genre’s racist history

June 8, 2020 Mark Whitfield 4

RS Country has posted a really timely piece about country music’s relationship with race entitled Rewriting Country Music’s Racist History which interviews among others Yola and Rhiannon Giddens, the latter challenging what she calls a “manufactured […]

Amythyst Kiah set for UK summer dates

June 13, 2019 Mark Underwood 0

A name that’s likely to be relatively new to readers of Americana UK is Amythyst Kiah, who has recently collaborated as part of a feted supergroup of four banjo players under the moniker, Our Native Daughters.