Here's "Going to Raleigh," a new track from Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson's upcoming album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out April 18 on Nonesuch. Originally released in 1939 by western North Carolina string band The Carolina Playboys, this version (learned by Robinson from Evelyn Shaw) was recorded at the historic former plantation Mill Prong House & Preservation in Red Springs, NC, where the video was filmed by Alexei Mejouev.
Giddens says, “Mill Prong is located on a complicated patch of land—once owned by an indigenous farmer subsequently kicked off the land, bought by Gaels (an oppressed population overseas) who then bought African Americans to work it—a microcosm of American history. ‘Going to Raleigh’ was recorded by a nearby stream that has seen it all.”
