Sneak Peek: Rhiannon Giddens Podcast

Rhiannon Giddens: I got home to North Carolina and I started dancing at this local contras and squares, and the bands were old-time bands, and I was like “What is this?”, like I heard bluegrass but the old-time banjo is totally something different and it's much more connected for me to like the African sounds, the African diasporic sounds that would have come from the original banjo which is an African-American-Caribbean invention, and I didn't know it at the time but I was just so connected to that beat and that sound and then I just wanted to play it.