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For breakout artist Amythyst Kiah, making her critically acclaimed new album, “Wary + Strange,” was like musical therapy, helping unpack the trauma of her mother’s suicide.
“I’ve dealt with social anxiety and dissociating my feelings and repressing my feelings for a very, very long time, and it really kind
On the collaborative 2019 project Songs of Our Native Daughters, Amythyst Kiah wrote and sang “Black Myself,” leading her bandmates Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens, and Leyla McCalla in a potent anthem about ingrained racism and resilience. The group was creating on the fly, re-centering black stories in roots music.
Amythyst Kiah’s new song “Wild Turkey” is one of 11 from her forthcoming new album, Wary + Strange. The devastating track finds the singer-songwriter recalling her mother’s death and the fallout from the tragedy.
Throughout “Wild Turkey,” Kiah shares details of her mom’s suicide: “Body in water for days
Folk singer Amythyst Kiah co-wrote three songs on Songs for Our Native Daughters, the brilliant 2019 album guided by Our Native Daughters creator Rhiannon Giddens. But she earned a Grammy nomination for her solo contribution, “Black Myself.”
The song, which also won Song of the Year at Folk Alliance International’s
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best