{"id":4595,"date":"2019-09-23T18:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2021-11-24T19:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T19:35:55","slug":"artist-feature-watch-rhiannon-giddens-poignant-tiny-desk-concert-for-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/artist-feature-watch-rhiannon-giddens-poignant-tiny-desk-concert-for-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Feature: Watch Rhiannon Giddens\u2019 Poignant Tiny Desk Concert For NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4591\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rhiannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rhiannon.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rhiannon-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rhiannon-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rhiannon-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>As a fellow native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Rhiannon Giddens immediately grasped my attention. Giddens\u2019 captivating music is filled with incredible depth and intensity, with songs that transport listeners to other times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>For NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk Concert, the folks and blues artist performed four songs, the majority being from her recent album, <\/b><b><i>There Is No Other<\/i><\/b><b>.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>She leads with \u201cTen Thousand Voices,\u201d which was influenced by her reading about the sub-Saharan slave trade. Drawing from history again with her follow-up, Giddens revealed that \u201cAt the Purchaser\u2019s Option\u201d was inspired by the American slave trade, where a late 1700s newspaper ad listed a woman \u201cfor sale,\u201d along with her nine-month-old baby, who was \u201cat the purchaser\u2019s option.\u201d She channeled her thoughts about the young woman and her child\u2019s life with great emotional magnitude. \u201cTake my body, you can take my bones. Take my blood, but not my soul,\u201d sings Giddens.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>For Giddens\u2019 third tune, \u201cI\u2019m On My Way,\u201d she introduces us to her 1858 banjo. \u201cI found a way to access my ancestors with this instrument, and to write new music with it,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Ending with the powerful gospel song \u201cHe Will See You Through,\u201d she focuses on the beauty, and all that is greater than ourselves. \u201cYou can call it whatever you want, \u2018Gravity,\u2019 \u2018God,\u2019 whatever. There\u2019s a force that I believe in, and that\u2019s what I focus on.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/event\/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=760629694&amp;mediaId=760630594\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start lazyload\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start lazyload\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fellow native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Rhiannon Giddens immediately grasped my attention. Giddens\u2019 captivating music is filled with incredible depth and intensity, with songs that transport listeners to other times.\u00a0\u00a0 For NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk Concert, the folks and blues artist performed four songs, the majority being from her recent album, There Is No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[31,839,148,838,836],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-featured","tag-folk-music","tag-music","tag-npr-tiny-desk","tag-rhiannon-giddens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}