Encore: Amythyst Kiah joins Nashville correspondent Jessie Scott

Amythyst Kiah wrote the song “Black Myself” back in 2019 when she was in the band Our Native Daughters with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell. Amythyst decided to return to that powerful track for her latest solo album, called Wary + Strange, released last Summer. On this encore edition of the World Cafe, she joins Nashville correspondent Jessie Scott to discuss why the song stuck with her for so long, and how learning about old music and the banjo completely changed the trajectory of her career. All that, plus Amythyst Kiah performs a set of her music, live.

*Ziggy Marley “Free Like We Want 2 B” Free Like We Want 2 B
Amythyst Kiah “Firewater” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Amythyst Kiah “Black Myself” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Amythyst Kiah “Wild Turkey” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Amythyst Kiah “Hangover Blues” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Tori Amos “Past The Mission” Under The Pink
John Hiatt “Real Fine Love” Stolen Moments
Waxahatchee “Tomorrow” El Deafo (Soundtrack)
Warren Zevon “Hasten Down The Wind” Warren Zevon

Hour Two
*Marc Cohn “Walk Through The World” The Rainy Season
Spencer. “Myluv” Are U Down?
Spencer. “Lonely As I Ever Was” Are U Down?
B. B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” Completely Well
Citizen Cope “Hurricane Waters” The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
Neal Francis “Problems” In Plain Sight
Elton John “Take Me To The Pilot” Elton John
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers “Talkin’ To Myself” Nightroamer
Chris Stapleton “Midnight Train To Memphis” From A Room: Volume 2
Jade Jackson “Good Time” Gone Gilded
Old 97’s “She’s Got Everything” Sweetheart: Love Songs
Mitski “The Only Heartbreaker” Laurel Hell
Split Enz “I Got You” True Colours
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Quattro (World Drifts In)” Raise The Roof

*Optional Song