Starry Crown

Bandmates Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson met a little over a year ago at the Black Banjo Gathering held in Boone, North Carolina. With the guidance of fiddler Joe Thompson, they formed their band and sought to preserve and extend the regional music of both the local back and white communities. The focus of much of this music is on the voice of the banjo and the fiddle, as demonstrated in the disc’s opening track, “Starry Crown.” Go ahead, just try and sit still—I dare ya.

—MS