Rhiannon Giddens was a guest on the Today show on NBC this morning. She was joined by her band to perform the title track to her new album, You're the One, out Friday, and the album track "Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad," which was released today. You can watch performances and her conversations with the show's hosts below.

"I listened to a bunch of Aretha Franklin, and then turned to fellow Aretha-nut Dirk Powell and said, ‘Let’s write a song she might have sung!,'" Giddens says of writing "Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad." You can listen to the album track here:

You’re the One, Giddens’ first album of all original songs, has already received critical praise, with Uncut calling the album an “accomplished tour d’horizon by [a] prolific polymath.” 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 “You’re the One,” 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.”

Giddens has just announced a West Coast leg of her You're the One tour around her previously announced date at the Ace Theater in Los Angeles. 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