Rhiannon Giddens' new album, You're the One, her first of all original songs, is out now. You can hear the album and get it here, and take a quick look inside the vinyl here:

"Giddens melds the past and present, writing a bold new future for herself in the process," says Rolling Stone. "One of Americana music's most vital voices expands her sound without abandoning her roots." "It’s easy to hear the joyous spirit in which she’s singing these songs," says Folk Alley, "and Giddens delivers a little masterpiece of an album that showcases her commanding presence as a singer and songwriter." Uncut calls the album an “accomplished tour d’horizon by [a] prolific polymath.” All About Jazz says: "You're the One is yet another extraordinary offering from a great American musician whose work is consistently and superbly 'beyond category,' to quote Duke Ellington." The Arts Desk says: "Mingling Memphis-style horns with an Appalachian feel and her own particular soulful Americana, this isn't tricksy music, just upfront, inclusive, immediate and human." Of the title track, the New York Times says “the song explodes out of her string-band foundations—banjo and fiddle—into full-tilt rock choruses, bursting with euphoria.”

"There are good years, and then there are great years. Rhiannon Giddens is having one of those," says Michel Martin, host of NPR's Morning Edition. You can hear their conversation about the album here:

Giddens will lead the biggest headlining shows of her career in the months ahead, including performances at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in September, plus Barbican Hall in London, the Beacon Theatre in New York City, and the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles next spring. See below for details and tickets; for all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

You’re the One, produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Tank and the Bangas), features twelve songs, written over the course of Giddens’ career, that burst with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants. It was recorded with a band composed of Giddens’s closest musical collaborators from the past decade alongside musicians from producer Splash’s own Rolodex, topped off with a horn section, making an impressive ten- to twelve-person ensemble. The collaborators include Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi plus multi-instrumentalist 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.

RHIANNON GIDDENS ON TOUR

* w/Silkroad Ensemble