Rhiannon Giddens Confirms 1st Solo Album In 6 Years ‘You’re The One’ & Shares Title Track

Rhiannon Giddens announced her first solo album in six years, You’re The One, due out via Nonesuch Records on August 18. The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist previewed the LP with the title track.

Giddens announced You’re The One on the heels of winning a Pulitzer prize for her work with Michael Abels (Get Out, Nope) on the opera Omar. The new 12-track record is Rhiannon’s first solo album since 2017’s critically acclaimed Freedom Highway and her first LP of all-original songs.

Helmed by renowned producer Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Tank and the Bangas) at Miami’s Criteria Recording Studios, You’re The One sees Giddens tapping a number of longtime collaborators to work with including her partner Francesco Turrisi, multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu along with a host of sessions players adding horns, strings and more. The LP contains a sole featured guest spot from Jason Isbell.

Musically, You’re The One is a mélange of American musical forms.

“I hope that people just hear American music,” Giddens said of the new record. “Blues, jazz, Cajun, country, gospel, and rock—it’s all there. I like to be where it meets organically. They’re fun songs, and I wanted them to have as much of a chance as they could to reach people who might dig them but don’t know anything about what I do. If they’re introduced to me through this record, they might go listen to other music I’ve made and make some new discoveries.”

Rhiannon also detailed the title track, which was inspired by her infant son who is now ten years old. “Your life has changed forever, and you don’t know it until you’re in the middle of it and it hits you,” Giddens noted on parenthood. “I held his little cheek up to my face, and was just reminded, ‘Oh my God, my children—they have every bit of my heart.'”

Listen to “You’re The One” below:

Giddens also filled out her 2023 itinerary and got a start on 2024 including some of her biggest shows to date at renowned venues in North America and Europe such as Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in September along with stops in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, the Bay Area and more. Early 2024 will see Rhiannon at the Barbican Centre in London, New York City’s Beacon Theatre and the Ace Theater in Los Angeles.

Following various presales, tickets for Giddens’ Fall 2023 and 2024 tour dates go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 19 at 10 a.m. local venue time.

Find Rhiannon Giddens’ full tour routing below:

You’re The One Tracklist:

1. Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad
2. You’re the One
3. Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell)
4. Wrong Kind of Right
5. Another Wasted Life
6. You Louisiana Man
7. If You Don’t Know How Sweet It Is
8. Hen in the Foxhouse
9. Who Are You Dreaming Of
10. You Put the Sugar in My Bowl
11. Way Over Yonder
12. Good Ol’ Cider