Rhiannon Giddens Comes Home
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Black String Band and the Root of American Music
The black fiddler, even more than the black banjo player was like ubiquitous. The black string band is just, you know, at every function, there's black string bands. They are the jukeboxes of the country. But what happens is that the black not influence, but co-creation of the root of all American music is forgotten and we're sort of shunted into blues and jazz and stuff in spirituals because that's coming out of our pain.
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