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Better Get It Right the First Time by Rhiannon Giddens, live at the XPoNential Music Festival 2017

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Rhiannon Giddens - She’s Got You

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Come Love Come by Rhiannon Giddens from the album Freedom Highway - Video by Harvey K. Robinson

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Rhiannon Giddens's performance at SFJAZZ with Francesco Turrisi and bassist Jason Sypher from February will premiere on SFJAZZ.org/watch this Friday at 8pm ET. The concert—one of four from her sold-out, week-long residency there—features songs from her latest album, there is no Other. Here is their performance of the album track “I’m on My Way.”

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Tiny Desk

Intimate concerts, recorded live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.

Rhiannon Giddens Brings Huge Voice, Collaborators to NPR’s Tiny Desk

From ruminations on slavery to songs of redemption, Rhiannon Giddens covered several hundred years of human experience in less than 20 minutes behind NPR’s Tiny Desk.

Performing four numbers with double bassist Jason Sypher and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi on banjo, piano and frame drum, Giddens, who sings and plays banjo, focused on tracks from there is no Other, her recent joint with Turrisi, and also played “At the Purchaser’s Option” from 2017’s Freedom Highway. The latter was inspired by an 18th-century newspaper ad selling a female slave with her baby available “at the purchaser’s option.”

You can take my body/you can take my bones/you can take my blood/but not my soul, Giddens sings repeatedly on the outro as if convincing herself of the truth in the words.

"So much beauty and so much horribleness wrapped up together seems to be our story," Giddens says in introducing the finale, “He Will See You Through.”

Coming on the heels of the drums, bass and banjo-infused hopefulness of “I’m on My Way,” “He Will See You Through” showcases Giddens’ operatic voice accompanied only by bowed bass and piano. And in that moment, NPR’s Tiny Desk was transformed into a worldwide church of souls from across the centuries.

9/17/19

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Songs that bring history to life | Rhiannon Giddens’ TED Talk