RHIANNON GIDDENS
''TOMORROW IS MY TURN''
FEBRUARY 10 2015
43:35
1 Last Kind Words (Geeshie Wiley) 04:13
2 Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind (Dolly Parton) 03:36
3 Waterboy (Jacques Wolfe) 03:44
4 She's Got You (Hank Cochran) 04:17
5 Up Above My Head (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) 03:09
6 Tomorrow is My Turn (Charles Aznavour, Marcel Stellman, Yves Stephane) 04:37
7 Black Is the Color (Traditional) 03:43
8 Round About the Mountain (Traditional) 03:29
9 Shake Sugaree (Elizabeth Cotten) 04:24
10 O Love Is Teasin' (Traditional) 04:30
11 Angel City (Rhiannon Giddens) 03:49
Jack Ashford/Tambourine
Jonathan Batiste/Melodica
Jay Bellerose/Drums, Percussion
Mike Bub/Acoustic Bass Guitar
T-Bone Burnett/Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic)
Keefus Ciancia/Keyboards
Mike Compton/Mandolin
Dennis Crouch/Bass Guitar, Acoustic Bass
Richard Dodd/Cello
Rhiannon Giddens/Arranger, Vocals
Roland Hayes/Arranger
Hubby Jenkins/Banjo, Guitar (Acoustic)
Paul Kowert/Acoustic Bass
Darrell Leonard/Trumpet
Colin Linden/Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
Lester Lovitt/Trumpet
Adam Matta/Beatbox
Tom Peterson/Sax (Baritone)
Noam Pikelny/Banjo
Joe Sublett/Sax (Tenor)
Jim Thompson/Sax (Tenor)
Tata Vega/Vocals (Background)
Gabe Witcher/Fiddle, Guitar (Acoustic), Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements, Viola, Violin
Jean Witherspoon/Vocals (Background)
REVIEW/AMG
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
**** Of *****
Stepping away from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens teams up with producer T-Bone Burnett for her 2015 solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn. Giddens previously worked with Burnett on Lost on the River, an album where musicians added new music to lyrics Bob Dylan left behind during The Basement Tapes, and she also appeared in a concert he shepherded for the Coen brothers' folk revival opus Inside Llewyn Davis -- two projects steeped in history, as is Tomorrow Is My Turn. Here, Giddens expands upon the neo-string band of the Carolina Chocolate Drops by crafting an abbreviated and fluid history of 20th century roots music -- along with the older forms that informed it -- concentrating on songs either written or popularized by female musicians. As a torchbearer, not a revivalist, Giddins isn't concerned with replicating either the sound or feel of the past, so she comfortably slips a subdued hip-hop drum loop into "Black Is the Color," a standard here credited to Nina Simone, and blurs country and soul boundaries on Patsy Cline's "She's Got You." These two are the most overt tamperings with tradition but Giddens is sly throughout Tomorrow Is My Turn, giving Elizabeth Cotten's "Shake Sugaree" a deceptively lively little lilt and casting Dolly Parton's "Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind" as a rolling progressive folk tune that creates an invisible bridge between past and present. Much of Giddens' work on Tomorrow Is My Turn demonstrates the benefits of such careful, deliberate sculpting, making it a nice fit for Burnett's handsome acoustica. Thankfully, the austereness that sometimes creeps into T-Bone's new millennial work is nowhere to be found; there's a warmth that radiates from Giddens, which is crucial to the success of the record. Her easy, welcoming touch is a balm every time Tomorrow Is My Turn is played, but it's upon successive spins that the intricacies of Giddens' construction -- not to mention her subtle political messages -- begin to take hold.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Timothy Monger
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens is best known as the frontwoman of African-American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, whose 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig earned them a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. Raised in Piedmont, North Carolina, Giddens studied opera at the Oberlin Conservatory before relocating back home, where she became immersed in the rural musical traditions of that region. A chance meeting with future bandmates Justin Robinson and Dom Flemons at the 2005 Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, North Carolina resulted in the formation of their first folk project, Sankofa Strings. Originally an outlet to perform various early African-American musical styles like blues, country, hot string jazz, and Caribbean, the bandmembers ended up learning much of their early repertoire from legendary old-time fiddler Joe Thompson. Adopting the name the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the group released four eclectic and well-respected albums before signing with Nonesuch Records to release its wildly successful 2010 breakthrough album. Following the success of Genuine Negro Jig, the band continued to tour and record with an ever-evolving lineup that remained centered around Giddens' powerful vocals and fiddle/banjo playing. Drafted by producer T-Bone Burnett to perform solo at the 2013 Another Day, Another Time concert (celebrating the musical era of the film Inside Llewyn Davis) in New York, she gave a show-stopping performance of the Odetta classic "Waterboy," which was widely considered the highlight of the evening. Just a few months later in early 2014, she again worked with Burnett on the collaborative New Basement Tapes recording project, which featured Elvis Costello, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons), and Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) writing new music to recently discovered Bob Dylan lyrics. Her own Burnett-produced solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn, was released a year later in February 2015.
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''TOMORROW IS MY TURN''
FEBRUARY 10 2015
43:35
1 Last Kind Words (Geeshie Wiley) 04:13
2 Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind (Dolly Parton) 03:36
3 Waterboy (Jacques Wolfe) 03:44
4 She's Got You (Hank Cochran) 04:17
5 Up Above My Head (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) 03:09
6 Tomorrow is My Turn (Charles Aznavour, Marcel Stellman, Yves Stephane) 04:37
7 Black Is the Color (Traditional) 03:43
8 Round About the Mountain (Traditional) 03:29
9 Shake Sugaree (Elizabeth Cotten) 04:24
10 O Love Is Teasin' (Traditional) 04:30
11 Angel City (Rhiannon Giddens) 03:49
Jack Ashford/Tambourine
Jonathan Batiste/Melodica
Jay Bellerose/Drums, Percussion
Mike Bub/Acoustic Bass Guitar
T-Bone Burnett/Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic)
Keefus Ciancia/Keyboards
Mike Compton/Mandolin
Dennis Crouch/Bass Guitar, Acoustic Bass
Richard Dodd/Cello
Rhiannon Giddens/Arranger, Vocals
Roland Hayes/Arranger
Hubby Jenkins/Banjo, Guitar (Acoustic)
Paul Kowert/Acoustic Bass
Darrell Leonard/Trumpet
Colin Linden/Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
Lester Lovitt/Trumpet
Adam Matta/Beatbox
Tom Peterson/Sax (Baritone)
Noam Pikelny/Banjo
Joe Sublett/Sax (Tenor)
Jim Thompson/Sax (Tenor)
Tata Vega/Vocals (Background)
Gabe Witcher/Fiddle, Guitar (Acoustic), Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements, Viola, Violin
Jean Witherspoon/Vocals (Background)
REVIEW/AMG
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
**** Of *****
Stepping away from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens teams up with producer T-Bone Burnett for her 2015 solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn. Giddens previously worked with Burnett on Lost on the River, an album where musicians added new music to lyrics Bob Dylan left behind during The Basement Tapes, and she also appeared in a concert he shepherded for the Coen brothers' folk revival opus Inside Llewyn Davis -- two projects steeped in history, as is Tomorrow Is My Turn. Here, Giddens expands upon the neo-string band of the Carolina Chocolate Drops by crafting an abbreviated and fluid history of 20th century roots music -- along with the older forms that informed it -- concentrating on songs either written or popularized by female musicians. As a torchbearer, not a revivalist, Giddins isn't concerned with replicating either the sound or feel of the past, so she comfortably slips a subdued hip-hop drum loop into "Black Is the Color," a standard here credited to Nina Simone, and blurs country and soul boundaries on Patsy Cline's "She's Got You." These two are the most overt tamperings with tradition but Giddens is sly throughout Tomorrow Is My Turn, giving Elizabeth Cotten's "Shake Sugaree" a deceptively lively little lilt and casting Dolly Parton's "Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind" as a rolling progressive folk tune that creates an invisible bridge between past and present. Much of Giddens' work on Tomorrow Is My Turn demonstrates the benefits of such careful, deliberate sculpting, making it a nice fit for Burnett's handsome acoustica. Thankfully, the austereness that sometimes creeps into T-Bone's new millennial work is nowhere to be found; there's a warmth that radiates from Giddens, which is crucial to the success of the record. Her easy, welcoming touch is a balm every time Tomorrow Is My Turn is played, but it's upon successive spins that the intricacies of Giddens' construction -- not to mention her subtle political messages -- begin to take hold.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Timothy Monger
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens is best known as the frontwoman of African-American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, whose 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig earned them a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. Raised in Piedmont, North Carolina, Giddens studied opera at the Oberlin Conservatory before relocating back home, where she became immersed in the rural musical traditions of that region. A chance meeting with future bandmates Justin Robinson and Dom Flemons at the 2005 Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, North Carolina resulted in the formation of their first folk project, Sankofa Strings. Originally an outlet to perform various early African-American musical styles like blues, country, hot string jazz, and Caribbean, the bandmembers ended up learning much of their early repertoire from legendary old-time fiddler Joe Thompson. Adopting the name the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the group released four eclectic and well-respected albums before signing with Nonesuch Records to release its wildly successful 2010 breakthrough album. Following the success of Genuine Negro Jig, the band continued to tour and record with an ever-evolving lineup that remained centered around Giddens' powerful vocals and fiddle/banjo playing. Drafted by producer T-Bone Burnett to perform solo at the 2013 Another Day, Another Time concert (celebrating the musical era of the film Inside Llewyn Davis) in New York, she gave a show-stopping performance of the Odetta classic "Waterboy," which was widely considered the highlight of the evening. Just a few months later in early 2014, she again worked with Burnett on the collaborative New Basement Tapes recording project, which featured Elvis Costello, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons), and Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) writing new music to recently discovered Bob Dylan lyrics. Her own Burnett-produced solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn, was released a year later in February 2015.
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