Songs of Our Native Daughters
This amazing project is the brainchild of Rhiannon Giddens, a classically trained singer from North Carolina who makes up ⅓ of the CCD. She assembled a supergroup of black women singer-songwriters in the country music industry including the aforementioned Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell, and Haitian-American cellist Leyla McCalla who joined CCD briefly. Russell wrote “Quasheba, Quasheba,” in honor of her ancestor who her family traced from captivity in Ghana to a sugar cane plantation in Grenada.
