Music

328: Rhiannon Giddens

Does genre give music history and context or is it merely confining? “Genre is BS. I’m sorry. It just is,” says this founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and artistic director of Silkroad. The story of Black string band music — fiddles, banjos, and Jane Austen.

Person: Jane Austen
Place: Joe Thompson’s living room
Thing: her banjo
Randy’s Thing: this 45