“I’m a mission-based artist,” she said in a video chat. “I’m that girl at the party that you back away from, because she’s going to talk about either banjos or slavery, or maybe both.” The New York Times profiles Rhiannon Giddens '00, who is releasing a solo album, "You're the One," on Friday, August 18, noting the record is "her first full album of her own songwriting; it’s also her most playful project yet." Says Giddens: “I need to make the record that I need to make at that moment. I needed to do something with these songs that I loved. And I wanted to have fun and I wanted to explore different sounds.” Read the full story at the #linkinbio. (Photo by Ebru Yildiz) #oberlincollege #rhiannongiddens #oberlin