India, July 1 -- Mickey Guyton and Samara Joy are the featured artists for Salt Lick's Songs of U.S. series this week.
The new series brings together musicians from across genres and generations to reinterpret songs that have shaped the country's cultural identity while exploring what belongs in the American songbook today.
Through their striking performances and in-depth interviews, Guyton and Joy present music as a powerful truth that reflects America's past, present, and future.
Monday, Salt Lick Sessions premiered Joy's performance of Duke Ellington's "Le Sucrier-Velours," which she selected as a song that deserves to be in the American songbook. Uniquely, she wrote original lyrics to Ellington's melodic composition.
Tuesday, Joy's ...