Released in late 2015 as a sort of companion piece to her full-length solo debut from earlier in the year, Rhiannon Giddens' Factory Girl EP offers an additional five tracks of defiantly reinvented folk, blues, country, and even Celtic music.
Recorded with T-Bone Burnett during the same sessions that produced the acclaimed Tomorrow Is My Turn, the Carolina Chocolate Drops frontwoman feels right at home on the brassy blues of "That Lonesome Road" and the jazzy "Underneath the Harlem Moon," though her rum-running-inspired original track, "Moonshiner's Daughter," is the obvious highlight of this brief set.
While Giddens' fearless attempt at a traditional Gaelic vocal style on "Mouth Music" feels like a bit of a stumble, this EP is, for the most part, a worthy addendum to her excellent debut.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That Lonesome Road | Rhiannon Giddens | Play | 03:05 | 7 MB | 18 MB |
| 2 | Mouth Music | Rhiannon Giddens | Play | 02:52 | 6 MB | 17 MB |
| 3 | Moonshiner's Daughter | Rhiannon Giddens | Play | 03:58 | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| 4 | Underneath the Harlem Moon | Rhiannon Giddens | Play | 03:50 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 5 | Factory Girl | Rhiannon Giddens | Play | 06:58 | 15 MB | 36 MB |
| 20 mins | 47 MB | |||||
| 20 mins | 119 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhiannon Giddens | Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |