Silkroad Ensemble and Rhiannon Giddens: "Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel Driving Man"

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The first single from Silkroad and Rhiannon Giddens's upcoming album, American Railroad, is her arrangement of the traditional songs "Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man." The former is written by wrongfully imprisoned Black men and women, who unwillingly risked their lives building the Swannanoa Tunnel in Giddens's home state of North Carolina. The latter is about the folk hero John Henry.

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    Silkroad Ensemble and Rhiannon Giddens: "Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel Driving Man"

    The first single from Silkroad and Rhiannon Giddens's upcoming album, American Railroad, is her arrangement of the traditional songs "Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man." The former is written by wrongfully imprisoned Black men and women, who unwillingly risked their lives building the Swannanoa Tunnel in Giddens's home state of North Carolina. The latter is about the folk hero John Henry.

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