Dirt Farmer

She tells us, for example, about an original retelling of the epic Beowulf set in Appalachia, and her work on The Gathering, A Winter's Tale in Six Songs, garnered write-ups in some of the nation's biggest newspapers and magazines.

Along the way, Laurelyn's song Anna Lee, which she has recut for How Many Moons, was picked up by the late great Levon Helm for his Dirt Farmer album, and then his live Ramble at the Ryman album after that.

We will also hear her song Leaving Eden and the story of how it became the title track of the Carolina Chocolate Drops' final album.

She is close to the Chocolate Drop's most famous alum, Rhiannon Giddens, and we'll talk about her too.

do and that's you know because of his friend Anna Lee Amsden I believe is her last name Levon has a real had a real friend named Anna Lee who appears in several of those band songs and so that was the impetus for that

I was going to go there.

He cut that in Dirt Farmer, came out in 2007.

And I was happy to see it also appeared on the Ramble at the Ryman album.