The newest album from Rhiannon Giddens’, You’re the One is her third solo studio album and her first of all original songs.
This collection of 12 songs written over the course of Giddens’ career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants.
Produced by Jack Splash (Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June), You’re the One features some of Giddens’ closest musical collaborators from the past decade, including multi-instrumentalists Francesco Turrisi and Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu.
The album features electric and upright bass, conga, Cajun and Piano accordions, guitars, a Western string section, and Miami horns, among other instruments, capturing the inclusive spirit that channels through all of her work.