Carolina Quotes
Like, this instrument right here - you know, born in Africa but then made in America and then altered by white America - I mean, that's the story of so much of our music, you know. And it starts here.
Rhiannon Giddens Carolinian
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Interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, May 11, 2017
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