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Rhiannon Giddens reunites with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson on What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, an album of North Carolina fiddle and banjo music. Produced by Giddens and Joseph InchjoebassInch DeJarnette, the album features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle, with the duo playing eighteen of their favorite North Carolina tunes a mix of instrumentals and tunes with words. Many were learned from their late mentor, the legendary North Carolina Piedmont musician Joe Thompson; one is from another musical hero, the late Etta Baker, from whom they also learned by listening to recordings of her playing. Giddens and Robinson recorded outdoors at Thompson's and Baker's North Carolina homes, as well as the former plantation Mill Prong House. They were accompanied by the sounds of nature, including two different broods of cicadas, which had not emerged simultaneously since 1803, creating a true once-in-a-lifetime soundscape Album Tracks 1. Rain Crow 2. Brown's Dream 3. Hook and Line 4. Pumpkin Pie 5. Duck's Eyeball 6. Ryestraw 7. Little Brown Jug 8. Going to Raleigh 9. Country Waltz 10. Molly Put the Kettle on 11. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss 12. John Henry 13. Love Somebody 14. Ebenezer 15. Old Joe Clark 16. Old Molly Hare 17. Marching Jaybird 18. Walkin' in the Parlor
