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Robert Plant's Saving Grace, his first album with a new band of distinguished players, is what he calls "a song book of the lost and found." Its genesis was during lockdown in "The Shire," when Plant's customary wandering was all but forbidden. It was in the English countryside that he connected closely to this diverse group of musicians-vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown-who had a shared lean towards his corners of evocative song. Produced by Plant and the band and recorded over six years in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, Saving Grace breathes fresh life into a treasury of songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Low.

Robert Plant's Saving Grace, his first album with a new band of distinguished players, is what he calls "a song book of the lost and found." Its genesis was during lockdown in "The Shire," when Plant's customary wandering was all but forbidden. It was in the English countryside that he connected closely to this diverse group of musicians-vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown-who had a shared lean towards his corners of evocative song. Produced by Plant and the band and recorded over six years in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, Saving Grace breathes fresh life into a treasury of songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Low.

Nonesuch Records releases a fifteenth anniversary edition of Carolina Chocolate Drops' 2010 Grammy Award-winning album Genuine Negro Jig on January 23, 2026. The reissue, featuring founding band members Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson, includes the original album and nine bonus tracks: seven previously unreleased tracks plus a 2025 remaster of "City of Refuge" and a 2025 mix of "Memphis Shakedown." This release marks the album's first time on vinyl since its original pressing in 2010. The bonus track "Here Rattler," a traditional tune that Justin Robinson learned from Grand Ole Opry star Grandpa Jones and African American banjoist John Snipes, is available today. It features Robinson on the banjo, Giddens on the fiddle, and Flemons on the rhythm bones.<br/> <br/>Genuine Negro Jig was released on February 16, 2010, reaching the top ten on the Billboard Folk chart and the top of the Bluegrass chart. It won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. Produced by Joe Henry, it was the first of three releases on Nonesuch followed by Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminescent Orchestrii EP (2011) and the Grammy-nominated album Leaving Eden (2012), produced by Buddy Miller. Widely acclaimed as one of 2010's best, Genuine Negro Jig appeared in year-end lists of NPR, Paste, and more, and was featured in Rolling Stone's 25 Best Country-Soul Albums in 2024. <br/> <br/>"Genuine Negro Jig remains fresh fifteen years later not only because of the Carolina Chocolate Drops' influence on American popular culture but also because it's an excellent record in itself," says Dr. Dwandalyn Reece and Dr. Steven Lewis of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in the album's liner notes. <br/> <br/>Carolina Chocolate Drops formed after band members Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson met at the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, NC in 2005. All three trained in the Piedmont banjo and fiddle musical tradition under the tutelage of Joe Thompson, who was one of the last musicians of his era and his community to carry on the southern Black string band tradition. While old-time Southern string music is often associated with Caucasian musicians from Appalachia, Giddens pointed out in an NPR interview that "it seems that two things get left out of the history books. One, that there was string band music in the Piedmont, period. [And that] Black folk was such a huge part of string tradition." Carolina Chocolate Drops sought to not only correct this misunderstanding but also to keep the centuries-old string music tradition alive and developing.

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The newest album from Rhiannon Giddens', You're the One is her third solo studio album and her first of all original songs. This collection of 12 songs written over the course of Giddens' career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants. Produced by Jack Splash (Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June), You're the One features some of Giddens' closest musical collaborators from the past decade, including multi-instrumentalists Francesco Turrisi and Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu. The album features electric and upright bass, conga, Cajun and Piano accordions, guitars, a Western string section, and Miami horns, among other instruments, capturing the inclusive spirit that channels through all of her work. <br/><br/>"I hope that people just hear American music," Giddens says. "Blues, jazz, Cajun, country, gospel, and rock-it's all there. I like to be where it meets organically. They're fun songs, and I wanted them to have as much of a chance as they could to reach people who might dig them but don't know anything about what I do. If they're introduced to me through this record, they might go listen to other music I've made with a different set of ears."

Albumet är producerat av Danger Mouse och The Black Keys. De elva låtarna till albumet spelades in i sångaren/gitarristens Dan Auerbach "Easy Eye Sound Studio" i killarnas nuvarande hemstad Nashville.<br/><br/>I maj 2010 släppte bandet sitt kritikerrosade "Brothers" som blev duons genombrott. De vann tre Grammy-awards, MTV Music Award och toppade listor över årets bästa skivor runt om i världen. Albumet gav oss två hitsinglar med "Tighten Up" och "Howlin' for you". Albumet har sålt över en miljon exemplar världen över.<br/><br/>Trummisen Patrick Carney reflekterar över bandet utveckling, "We've taken the long road to get where we are. It's pretty cool to be in your early 30s making music with your best friend. We've experienced everything from driving a thousand miles to play for no one to winning Grammys."<br/>The Black Keys bildades i Akron av Dan Auerbach och Patrick Carney. De släppte sitt debutalbum "The Big Come Up" år 2002. Sedan dess har de släppt två album till innan de började samarbeta med Nonesuch Records i USA. <br/><br/>Rolling Stones Magazine kallar The Black Keys för "a two man combo with a big-band mind". Det uttrycket beskriver bra hur ny albumet låter. Elva rockiga låtar i samarbete med vännen Danger Mouse, förvandlas till ett mäktigt sound för de stora arenorna. "El Camino" låter som en blandning av britrockens 70 och 80 -tal. Efter Beatles men före punkens intåg, en blandning mellan soundet av T-Rex och Gary Glitter mixat med hårdare rock som Led Zeppelin och Black Sabbath.<br/><br/>"Rått, hett och jäkligt stilrent. El Camino är nästan för perfekt, det är totalt omöjligt att finna brister hur mycket man än bemödar sig." - Gaffa<br/><br/>"Med första singeln "Lonely Boy" i spetsen drar "El Camino" in med ett gitarrdriv som en mindre orkan." - Kajsa Lindström, Sydsvenskan<br/><br/>"Det är kul med alla dessa band som gör garageaktig bluesrock men som i stället för att fastna i sunkig nostalgi gör musik som är fullt kompatibel med övrig nutida musik. Det här är i allt väsentligt modernt och nyfiket." - Johan Lindquist, Göteborgsposten<br/><br/>"Duons sjunde album - som de gjort tillsammans med Danger Mouse - innehåller några av deras bästa låtar." - Linnea Olsson, Svenska Dagbladet

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: City of gold 2023 [Digipack / CD]