rhiannon giddens, “we could fly”
from: freedom highway, 2017
The stars of visionary artists rise and set. The vagaries of public approval and the tides of artistic anointments in their regard shift arbitrarily. But Rhiannon Giddens’ star is filling concert halls large and small all over the planet. You can be sure the attendees depart with their souls charged by the width of her talents. Those come principally from her passion to connect with African American history, and parse it into our time. It’s lessons may offer a way- finding for unraveling our dilemmas.