Giddens is also a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” winner. The album announcement comes during a huge week for Giddens, who was just awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Music for the opera Omar, which she co-wrote with Michael Abels. They’re fun songs, and I wanted them to have as much of a chance as they could to reach people who might dig them but don’t know anything about what I do.” “Blues, jazz, Cajun, country, gospel, and rock - it’s all there. “I hope that people just hear American music,” Giddens said in a release. Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell gets a featured credit on a track called “Yet to Be.” You’re the One was produced by Jack Splash (Solange, Kendrick Lamar) and includes musical contributions by Giddens’ partner, multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, as well as Dirk Powell, Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu.
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