Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell Explore Reconstruction-Era Music (Archives)
Podcast |
Soundcheck
Publisher |
WNYC Studios
Media Type |
audio
Publication Date |
Jun 20, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:38:54

African-American string band tradition meets Cajun/Creole and Appalachian music in a collaboration between singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, actor and MacArthur Fellow Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, a multi-instrumentalist, singer, arranger, songwriter, and actor himself. Together, with banjos and fiddles, they play each other's original songs, music that takes on the slave condition of pre-Civil War times, and chat about their recent project, songs tied to the Reconstruction era culture of the Wilmington, North Carolina Massacre of 1898. (From the Archives, 2018.)

Set list: 

  • I’m Gonna Write Me A Letter 
  • Say Old Playmate 
  • At the Purchaser’s Option 

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