Vinyl Record
Rhiannon Giddens - Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
Buy Rhiannon Giddens — Hope Is the Thing with Feathers on 140g Black Vinyl LP at Kilmorna, Listowel, Ireland. Explore the album and order online.
LP · 2026 · Nonesuch
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2026 LP on Nonesuch, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel, ship within Ireland from EUR 5.95 per record or outside Ireland from EUR 12.00 per record.
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers brings Rhiannon Giddens' many musical connections into a shared room. Co-produced with Dirk Powell and recorded at The Cypress House in Louisiana, the album favours live performances and the audible interaction between players. Small sounds around the takes remain part of the experience, giving the songs a human scale that suits Giddens' work with American roots traditions. The programme moves between new writing and material with a longer history. Carolina Rain, Freight Train and Cluck Old Hen sit within a ten-track sequence that connects personal expression with the collective act of making music. Banjo, fiddle and voice form part of a wider conversation among collaborators whose backgrounds extend beyond a single region or style. It is an album for listening to the ensemble as closely as the lead performance, following the way a pulse, a phrase or a response passes from one musician to another.
Giddens has repeatedly connected contemporary songwriting with the people and traditions behind American roots music. This record makes that connection tangible through the sound of musicians playing together, allowing collaboration and the atmosphere of a room to shape the listener's experience.
The standard 140-gram black vinyl LP presents the ten-song album on Nonesuch. Its programme runs from Angel Fire Rise to Going Home, with both original songs and interpretations along the way. The emphasis of this physical edition is the complete studio album and its ensemble performances.
Acoustic roots music led by voice, banjo and fiddle, with an unhurried live-room feel and small details of ensemble interaction left within the recordings.
Recommended for: Listeners following Rhiannon Giddens across her solo records; Fans of acoustic folk and American roots ensembles; Collectors of contemporary Nonesuch vinyl releases; Listeners interested in traditional songs beside new writing.
Which vinyl edition is this? This is the standard 140-gram black vinyl LP edition of Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, released by Nonesuch. How was the album recorded? Giddens and Dirk Powell co-produced the album at The Cypress House in Louisiana, with live playing central to the sessions. Does the album include Carolina Rain? Yes. Carolina Rain is part of the ten-track album, which also includes Freight Train, Cluck Old Hen and Going Home.