The Roots Project with Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby

Martha Redbone

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Martha Redbone is an Indigenous Black woman whose music is described as a "gumbo" of folk, blues, and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky, infused with the "eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn." She broadens the boundaries of American Roots music, drawing from her African American father's gospel singing and her mother's Southeastern Cherokee/Choctaw culture.