This is one of those albums that comes along every once in a while and just feels like its own affair. Our Native Daughters is Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah and Leyla McCalla, all wielding banjos and, more to the point, all bringing their own voices and visions to a record that's unified by their collective talent and its links to the various roots of American music - in that respect, its closest predecessor is maybe Raising Sand, which turned out to be a classic, still getting better with time - and specifically Black music. So it ranges widely, encompasses several songs that don't sound much like anything else on the album (most of them, really), and yet feels all of a piece. All up, it's a bit remarkable.
