“Rhiannon Giddens added to her impressive list of accomplishments earlier this year when the Grammy winner and MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant recipient won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Music as co-composer of the opera Omar,” Kallao says of his guest on NPR’s World Cafe. “The highly decorated singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, composer, and author is relentlessly busy, so we are thrilled to talk to her about her new album, You’re the One.” You can hear their conversation and Giddens’s and her band’s live performance from Wilmington, North Carolina, including three tracks from the new album—“Another Wasted Life,” “Yet to Be,” and “You Louisiana Man," which is up for a Grammy Award for Best American Roots Performance, along with the album itself for Best Americana Album—as well as two from her 2017 album, Freedom Highway—"At the Purchaser's Option" and "We Could Fly,” the lyrics of which provide the text for her new children’s book—and “Black Is the Color” from her 2015 debut solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, here:

You’re the One is Giddens’s third solo studio album and her first of all original songs. This collection of twelve tunes written over the course of her career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music she knows so deeply and its pop descendants. The album was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June) and recorded with an ensemble including Giddens' closest musical collaborators from the past decade, a string section, and Miami Horns. The lone featured guest on the album is Jason Isbell on “Yet to Be.” You can hear it and get it here.