Two years ago, four of America’s premier roots musicians and string instrumentalists — Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell — joined forces as Our Native Daughters for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings’ release Songs Of Our Native Daughters. The album features four Black women reclaiming the banjo’s power as America’s first and Blackest melodic… Read more »