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If you liked the music from Sinners...
may I recommend one of my favorite musicians, Rhiannon Giddens? She was featured on the soundtrack playing "Old Corn Liquor" on her banjo alongside former bandmate Justin Robinson on the fiddle.
But the real reason I'm recommending her is because she does what the movie does: celebrates southern American music in all its forms. On her first solo album she did covers of Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton alongside covers of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Elizabeth Cotten and Geeshie Wiley (also of the Sinners soundtrack).
My favorites from the album (though every song is wonderful) are:
"Waterboy" (by an immigrant Jewish songwriter who wrote for vaudeville and collaborated with Langston Hughes)
"Black Is the Color" (we love an Appalachian folk song with a beatbox!)
"Round About the Mountain (The Lord Loves a Sinner)" which would make for an INCREDIBLE Sinners fanvid....
Her second album is more explicitly political and explores many different moments in Black American history.
On this one she covers songs by Mississippi John Hurt, Richard Fariña, and Roebuck Staples, but she wrote most of the songs herself. Several of the songs are about the dangers of being a black man in contemporary America and she's got an excellent New Orleans-tinged cut or two, but my favorites are:
"At the Purchaser's Option," a title taken from an ad for an enslaved woman that said the baby could be sold with the mom or left behind "at the purchaser's option"
"Come Love Come," which sounds like it belongs on the Sinners soundtrack
And after you've listened to her solo stuff, check out her early work with Carolina Chocolate Drops for some old-time covers of R&B hits and Tom Waits songs and traditional bluegrass songs.
And the incredible project Songs of Our Native Daughters for banger after banger after banger after banger.
Oh and she was also a MacArthur genius and won a Pulitzer Prize for writing an opera about Omar ibn Said. So. You know. Rockstar.
But the real reason I'm recommending her is because she does what the movie does: celebrates southern American music in all its forms. On her first solo album she did covers of Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton alongside covers of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Elizabeth Cotten and Geeshie Wiley (also of the Sinners soundtrack).
My favorites from the album (though every song is wonderful) are:
"Waterboy" (by an immigrant Jewish songwriter who wrote for vaudeville and collaborated with Langston Hughes)
"Black Is the Color" (we love an Appalachian folk song with a beatbox!)
"Round About the Mountain (The Lord Loves a Sinner)" which would make for an INCREDIBLE Sinners fanvid....
Her second album is more explicitly political and explores many different moments in Black American history.
On this one she covers songs by Mississippi John Hurt, Richard Fariña, and Roebuck Staples, but she wrote most of the songs herself. Several of the songs are about the dangers of being a black man in contemporary America and she's got an excellent New Orleans-tinged cut or two, but my favorites are:
"At the Purchaser's Option," a title taken from an ad for an enslaved woman that said the baby could be sold with the mom or left behind "at the purchaser's option"
"Come Love Come," which sounds like it belongs on the Sinners soundtrack
And after you've listened to her solo stuff, check out her early work with Carolina Chocolate Drops for some old-time covers of R&B hits and Tom Waits songs and traditional bluegrass songs.
And the incredible project Songs of Our Native Daughters for banger after banger after banger after banger.
Oh and she was also a MacArthur genius and won a Pulitzer Prize for writing an opera about Omar ibn Said. So. You know. Rockstar.
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