Factory Girl (Rhiannon Giddens album)

Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens with a stringed instrument
Giddens performing at Aarhus Festival in 2015
Background information
Born (1977-02-21) February 21, 1977 (age 46)
Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.
Genres
Instruments
Years active2005–present
Labels
Formerly of
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Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician known for her eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the country, blues, and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she was the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.

Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. In addition to her work with the Grammy-winning[1] Chocolate Drops, Giddens has released five solo albums: Tomorrow Is My Turn (2015) and Freedom Highway (2017), 2019 and 2021's There Is No Other and They're Calling Me Home (both collaborations with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi), and You're the One (2023). She appears in the Smithsonian Folkways collection documenting Mike Seeger's final trip through Appalachia in 2009, Just Around The Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Styles – Mike Seeger’s Last Documentary (2019).[2] In 2014, she participated in the T Bone Burnett-produced project titled The New Basement Tapes along with several other musicians, which set a series of recently discovered Bob Dylan lyrics to newly composed music. The resulting album, Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, was a top-40 Billboard album.

In 2023, the opera Omar, co-written by Giddens and Michael Abels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.[3][4]

Early life

Giddens is of multiracial ancestry. Her father, David Giddens, is European-American. Her mother, Deborah Jamieson, is a descendant of African Americans and Native American tribes including the Lumbee, Occaneechi, and Seminole.[5] David and Deborah met as college students in the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. Giddens' parents separated soon after her birth, when Deborah Giddens came out as a lesbian.

Giddens and her sister grew up in Greensboro and nearby rural Gibsonville.[6][7][8] Her sister Lalenja Harrington is a director for Beyond Academics, a four-year certificate program supporting students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A singer and songwriter herself, Harrington occasionally collaborates with her sister on musical projects.[9]

Musical career

Giddens at Rudolstadt in 2015

Giddens is a 1995 alumna of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics,[10] and a 2000 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory at Oberlin College, where she studied opera.[11]

In 2005, Giddens, who at that time was spending time participating in Scottish traditional music competitions (specializing in the Gaelic lilting tradition, also known as mouth music),[12][13] attended the Black Banjo Then and Now Gathering, in Boone, North Carolina. There she met Dom Flemons and Súle Greg Wilson. The three started playing together professionally as a "postmodern string band", Sankofa Strings.[14] During that same time period, Giddens was also a regular caller at local contra dances and featured in a Celtic music band called Gaelwynd. Later in 2005, after both Gaelwynd and Sankofa Strings had released CD albums, Giddens and Flemons teamed up with other musicians and expanded the Sankofa Strings sound into what was to become the Grammy winning Carolina Chocolate Drops.

In 2007, Giddens contributed fiddle, banjo, "flat-footin'" dancing and additional vocals to Talitha MacKenzie's album Indian Summer.

Performing as a soprano, Giddens and mezzo-soprano Cheryse McLeod Lewis formed a duo called Eleganza to release a CD in 2009. Because I Knew You... consists of classical, religious, theater, and movie music. Giddens and Lewis were middle school classmates who reconnected after college while working in the same office. The friends started singing together in 2003, but did not begin recording until 2008.[15]

As of November 12, 2013, Giddens became the only original member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.[16]

In 2013, Giddens began pushing further into her solo career. Giddens participated in "Another Day, Another Time", a concert inspired by the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis.[17] Many critics have stated that Giddens had the best performance at what was called "the concert of the year".[18][19] Late in 2013, Giddens contributed the standout a cappella track "We Rise" to the LP We Are Not For Sale: Songs of Protest by the NC Music Love Army – a collective of activist musicians from North Carolina founded by Jon Lindsay and Caitlin Cary.[20] Giddens' protest song joins contributions from many other Carolina musical luminaries on the Lindsay-produced compilation (11/26/13 via Redeye Distribution), which was created to support the NC NAACP and the Moral Monday movement.[21]

In early 2014, Giddens recorded for Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes alongside Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith and Jim James. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett and is a compilation of partial, unreleased lyrics written by Bob Dylan.[22]

Giddens performing in Edmonton in 2015

In February 2015, Giddens released her debut solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, on Nonesuch Records. Also produced by Burnett, the album includes songs made famous by Patsy Cline, Odetta, Dolly Parton, and Nina Simone, among others.[18][23] The Wall Street Journal said the album "confirms the arrival of a significant talent whose voice and distinctive approach communicate the simmering emotion at the core of the songs."[24] Additionally, the Los Angeles Times called the album "a collection that should solidify her status as one of the bright new lights in pop music."[25]

In July 2015, she had a big stage at world music folk and dance festival at TFF Rudolstadt in Germany.[26] Her performance was also broadcast live by the German national public radio Deutschlandfunk.[27] Rhiannon appears on Jon Lindsay's single "Ballad of Lennon Lacy" (Redeye Distribution, August 21). The song tackles the mysterious hanging death of Lennon Lacy, a black teen from rural Bladenboro, North Carolina.[28]

On November 27, 2015, to coincide with the Black Friday Record Store Day event, Giddens released Factory Girl (EP) on Nonesuch Records, which contained music culled from the same T Bone Burnett–produced sessions that yielded Tomorrow Is My Turn.[29] A digital version of Factory Girl was made available December 11, 2015. The sessions for the album and EP took place in Los Angeles and Nashville, with a multi-generational group of players assembled by Burnett. Musicians on Factory Girl include Burnett; fiddle player Gabe Witcher and double bassist Paul Kowert of Punch Brothers; percussionist Jack Ashford of Motown's renowned Funk Brothers; drummer Jay Bellerose; guitarist Colin Linden; veteran Nashville session bassist Dennis Crouch; and Giddens's Carolina Chocolate Drops touring band-mates, multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins and beat-boxer Adam Matta.

Rhiannon appeared on Jools Holland's Hootenanny on December 31, 2015, shown on BBC Two. She performed songs from her 2015 album Tomorrow Is My Turn, including "Waterboy" and a cover of "St. James Infirmary Blues" with Tom Jones.

She was selected to take part in Transatlantic Sessions in January 2016. This collaboration between American and Celtic musicians is a coveted honor. The ensemble performed as part of Celtic Connections in Glasgow, and a short UK/Irish tour. Her performances on the tour included the stirring tribute to David Bowie "It Ain't Easy". Later in the year, Giddens became the first American to be honored as Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Later in the year, it was also announced that she would be receiving the prestigious Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. Winning this award makes Giddens both the only woman and the only person of color to receive the prize in its six-year history.[30] In 2016, it was also announced that Giddens and the Carolina Chocolate Drops would be inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame.[31]

In 2017, Giddens became only the fourth musician to perform at both the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals.[32] Later that year, she delivered the keynote address at the World of Bluegrass Business Conference 2017.[33] According to Bluegrass Today, "Giddens shattered long-held stereotypes...By the time she was done, she had systematically dismantled the myth of a homogenous Appalachia."[34] In June 2017, Giddens appeared in the multi award-winning documentary The American Epic Sessions, directed by Bernard MacMahon, where she recorded "One Hour Mama" and English folk ballad "Pretty Saro", on the restored first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s.[35] Both performances were released on Music from The American Epic Sessions: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.[36] Upon hearing the playback of these direct-to-disc recordings, she exclaimed "you feel like your soul is coming out of the speaker."[36]

In October 2017, Giddens was named one of the 2017 class of MacArthur "Genius" Fellows. The organization noted, "Giddens's drive to understand and convey the nuances, complexities, and interrelationships between musical traditions is enhancing our musical present with a wealth of sounds and textures from the past."[37] Rhiannon further demonstrated the broad range of her musical interests with several subsequent projects. In early November, she performed as a soprano with the Louisville Orchestra in Teddy Abrams' multimedia tribute to Muhammad Ali, The Greatest.[38] A week later, she sang with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for their live recording of American Originals: 1918, which explored the early development of jazz during the post WWI era.[39] In January 2018, Giddens co-produced (with Dirk Powell) Songs of Our Native Daughters for Smithsonian Folkways. Written and recorded with fellow artists Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell, "The album confronts the ways we are culturally conditioned to avoid talking about America's history of slavery, racism, and misogyny."[40] Also in early 2018, the Nashville Ballet announced that Rhiannon Giddens has been commissioned to write the music for Lucy Negro, Redux, a new dance choreographed by artistic director, Paul Vasterling. Based on the book of the same name by Caroline Randall Williams, its premise is that Shakespeare's Dark Lady was of African descent. The ballet premiered in February 2019.[41] Then, in March 2018, Giddens fulfilled a previously announced engagement as guest curator for the Cambridge Folk Festival by inviting Peggy Seeger, Kaia Kater, Birds of Chicago, Amythyst Kiah, and Yola Carter to perform at the event.[42]

Giddens recorded vocals for Silo Songs, an audio installation created by composer Brad Wells for Hancock Shaker Village. She contributed a song, "Mountain Hymn", to the popular video game Red Dead Redemption 2 which was released in October 2018. The song was written with Daniel Lanois. In December 2018, she began hosting a podcast called Aria Code with Rhiannon Giddens produced by the Metropolitan Opera and WQXR-FM. The program examines why individual arias have a lasting impact on audiences and how singers prepare to perform them.[43] In 2019, Giddens released two studio albums: Songs of Our Native Daughters with Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla and Amythyst Kiah, and There Is No Other with Italian musician Francesco Turrisi.[44][45]

For the 2020 Spoleto Festival USA, Rhiannon Giddens was commissioned to create an opera based on the Arabic language autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, a highly literate and cultured Torodbe (Muslim cleric) from the Fula people of modern Senegal, who was enslaved in an intertribal war against the Imamate of Futa Toro and brought aboard a slave ship to Charleston, South Carolina in 1807.[46] Giddens wrote the libretto and served as lead composer with help from co-composer Michael Abels. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world premiere of Omar was postponed until 2022.[47][48] It received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Music.[49]

In July 2020, Giddens was named Artistic Director of the cross-cultural music organization Silkroad (arts organization). The position had been vacant since 2017 when Silkroad's founder, Yo-Yo Ma, stepped down.[50]

On August 17, 2020, Giddens guest-hosted the BBC Radio 2 Blues Show whilst its regular host Cerys Matthews was on her holidays.[citation needed]

Giddens earned an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for her lasting impact on the UNCG community and work in music. She sang "Calling me Home" by Alice Gerrard at a virtual commencement after accepting the degree in December 2020.[51]

In 2023, Giddens joined the programming lineup at Wondrium leading the series "The Banjo: Music, History and Heritage."[52] In 2022, Giddens was named the musical director of the 2023 Ojai Music Festival.[53]

Acting

In 2017 and 2018, Giddens appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the CMT's Nashville as Hannah Lee "Hallie" Jordan, a social worker and gospel singer who is a significant character in Juliette's storyline.[54] Giddens appeared in 11 episodes and performed several songs that have been made available following each episode.

Documentary

Giddens is featured in the 2024 documentary Cover Your Ears produced by Prairie Coast Films and directed by Sean Patrick Shaul, discussing music censorship. [55]

Author

Rhiannon Giddens has announced that she will have four children's books published by Candlewick Press. The first two books, scheduled for release in Fall 2022, are based on the lyrics of her songs "Build A House" and "We Could Fly" with illustrations by Monica Mikai and Briana Mukodiri Uchendu respectively.[56]

Personal life

Giddens married Irish traditional musician Michael Laffan in 2007.[57] They have a daughter born in 2009 and a son born in 2013.[58] They had separated as of 2018.[59]

Giddens currently lives in Limerick, Ireland.[60] In 2019, Giddens began a relationship with her Italian musical partner Francesco Turrisi.[61] They released an album together in May 2019 and again in April 2021.[62][63]

Discography

Solo

Studio albums

Live albums

  • Live at Jazzfest 2016 (2016)
  • Live at Jazzfest 2017 (2017)

EPs

  • We Rise (2014)
  • Factory Girl (2015)

Singles

  • "Cruel World" (2019)
  • "Just the Two of Us" featuring Sxip Shirey (2020)
  • "Don't Call Me Names" (2020)
  • "Julie's Aria" with Bill Frisell and Francesco Turrisi (2022)
  • "Build a House" with Yo-Yo Ma and Francesco Turrisi (2022)

As member of Carolina Chocolate Drops

List of albums as member of Carolina Chocolate Drops, with selected details and chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[64] 		US Grass
[64] 		US Folk US Heat.
[64]
Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind
  • Release date: September 12, 2006
  • Label: Music Maker
 — — — —
  • Release date: December 11, 2007
  • Label: Atlantic
 — — — —
Heritage
  • Release date: February 18, 2008
  • Label: Dixiefrog
 — — — —
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops & Joe Thompson
  • (recorded live at MerleFest, April 25, 2008)
  • Release date: May 26, 2009
  • Label: Music Maker
 — — — —
Genuine Negro Jig
  • Release date: February 16, 2010
  • Label: Nonesuch
 150 1 2 2
Carolina Chocolate Drops/Luminescent Orchestrii EP
  • Release date: January 25, 2011
  • Label: Nonesuch
 — 3 11 32
Leaving Eden
  • Release date: February 24, 2012
  • Label: Nonesuch
 123 1 6 2
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

As member of Gaelwynd

  • Out on the Ocean: Music of the British Isles (2004)
  • Northern Lights (2005)

As member of The New Basement Tapes

As member of Our Native Daughters

As member of Silkroad Ensemble

  • Phoenix Rising (EP) (2023)

Additional collaborations

  • As member of Sankofa Strings, Colored Aristocracy (2005)
  • As Elftones & Rhiannon Giddens, All the Pretty Horses (2009)
  • As Laurelyn Dossett, Rhiannon Giddens, Eric Robertson & Bennett Sullivan, The Music of Beautiful Star (2009)
  • As Eleganza (with Cheryse McLeod Lewis), Because I Knew You... (2009)
  • As Mike Compton, Laurelyn Dossett, Rhiannon Giddens, Joe Newberry, Jason Sypher, The Gathering (2011)
  • As The Giddens Sisters (with Lalenja Harrington), I Know I've Been Changed (2013)
  • As Ben Harper and Rhiannon Giddens, Black Eyed Dog (single) (2020)
  • As Amanda Palmer and Rhiannon Giddens, It's a Fire (single) (2020)
  • As Renée Fleming, Alison Krauss, Rhiannon Giddens, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Before the Deluge (single) (2021)

Nashville

See Nashville discography Seasons Five and Six for songs performed by Hallie Jordan (played by Rhiannon Giddens)

Other significant appearances (lead, duet, trio, featured solo)

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations for Rhiannon Giddens
Year Association Category Nominated work Work
2010 Americana Music Awards Duo/Group of the Year Carolina Chocolate Drops Nominated
2011 Grammy Awards Best Traditional Folk Album Genuine Negro Jig Won
2012 Americana Music Awards Duo/Group of the Year Carolina Chocolate Drops Nominated
2013 Grammy Awards Best Folk Album Leaving Eden Nominated
2015 Americana Music Awards Album of the Year Tomorrow Is My Turn Nominated
Artist of the Year Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
2016 Grammy Awards Best Folk Album Tomorrow Is My Turn Nominated
International Folk Music Awards Album of the Year Tomorrow Is My Turn Won
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Folk Singer of the Year Rhiannon Giddens Won
Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass N/A Rhiannon Giddens Won
North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Induction Rhiannon Giddens and the Carolina Chocolate Drops Won
2017 Grammy Awards Best American Roots Performance Factory Girl Nominated
Best Folk Album Factory Girl Nominated
Living Blues Awards Critics Poll Blues Artist of the Year (Female) Rhiannon Giddens Won
Americana Music Awards Album of the Year Freedom Highway Nominated
Country Music Association Awards Musical Event of the Year Kill a Word (with Eric Church) Nominated
MacArthur Fellowship Won
2018 International Folk Music Awards Album of the Year Freedom Highway Won
Songlines Music Awards Americas Freedom Highway Won
Living Blues Awards New Recordings (Traditional & Acoustic) Freedom Highway Won
2019 Americana Music Honors & Awards Legacy of Americana Rhiannon Giddens Won
Duo/Group of the Year Our Native Daughters Nominated
Artist of the Year Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
2020 Grammy Awards Best American Roots Performance I'm On My Way Nominated
Blues Music Awards Acoustic Blues Artist Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
Living Blues Awards Blues Artist of the Year (Female) Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
Most Outstanding Blues Singer Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
Best Live Performer Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
Critics Poll Most Outstanding Musician (Other/Banjo) Rhiannon Giddens Won
Producer of the Year: New Recording Rhiannon Giddens & Dirk Powell (Songs of Our Native Daughters) Won
2021 Blues Music Awards Traditional Blues Female Artist Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
Americana Music Honors & Awards Duo/Group of the Year Our Native Daughters Nominated
2022 Grammy Awards Best American Roots Song Avalon Nominated
Best Folk Album They're Calling Me Home Won
Songlines Music Awards Fusion Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi Nominated
2023 Blues Music Awards Traditional Blues Female Artist Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
Acoustic Blues Artist Rhiannon Giddens Nominated
Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards Jury Award Omar Won
Pulitzer Prize Music Omar Won
2024 Grammy Awards Best American Roots Performance "You Louisiana Man" Nominated
Best Americana Album You're The One Nominated

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