What are you spinning now? Mark 27

starting 2004

and latest

2025

XXV

1. Can’t Stop Now (feat. Sam Bush)
2. In Control (feat. Lindsay Lou)
3. Reverend (feat. Billy Strings)
4. Broken Highways
5. Old Barns
6. Last Winter in the Copper Country (feat. Holly Bowling)
7. Past My Prime (feat. Nathaniel Rateliff)
8. 33443
9. What You Need (feat. Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman)
10. Who is Frederico? (feat. Jason Hann)
11. Lose My Way (feat. Aoife O’Donovan and Ivan Neville)
12. Windshield (feat. Holly Bowling)
13. Drink Up and Go Home

Remarkably, this recording (from August 1960) has remained unreleased until today.

A multiracial beauty

lead singer, fiddler and banjoist and a founder of Carolina Chocolate Drops

attended North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham

and studied opera at Oberlin Conservatory at Oberlin College,

“Giddens has released five solo albums: Tomorrow Is My Turn (2015) and Freedom Highway (2017); 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).” (Wikipedia)

A project with T-Bone Burnett

My understanding is that in working with producer T-Bone Burnett, he loved her voice but

warned about not “burning it out” - that he provided tips and training so that her voice might last a career.

Another project was "American Railroad "with Silk Road Ensemble

and 2025 release with Justin Robinson

Some PBS stations have carried “American Railroad” half hour tv episodes with Rhiannon and highlighted individual Silk Road Ensemble musicians, and another series based in Ireland (“her second home”) highlighting Irish/Celtic musicians and singers.
Have seen these typically on Sunday afternoons.

Paradises

-Ladytron

I was re-reading some old correspondence with one of my University of Chicago friends about jazz (he’s one of the best pianists and guitarists I’ve ever befriended and had been a music professor at Yale, and is now a music professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor). So I decied it was time for some “Chicago Style” so to speak.

Eddie Condon Town Hall Concerts, Vol. 10, Jazzology 2 cd set, first disc

I read someone mentioning the Concord Maybeck Hall series of cds so I pulled a few out to revisit.

This one now: “Toshiko Akiyoshi at Maybeck” Concord cd

It’s very good.