Harold J. "Hal" Kiah started at the Carousel Center mall in 1991. For the next 21 years, he worked the desk where people buy tokens. He also walked around the merry-go-round to make sure all was ...

Amythyst Kiah's new "Black Myself" music video finds a bit of universality in her experiences. The singer-songwriter's new clip shows how the feelings and experiences about which she sings are ...

On the collaborative 2019 project Songs of Our Native Daughters, Amythyst Kiah wrote and sang “Black Myself,” leading her bandmates Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens, and Leyla McCalla in a ...

Amythyst Kiah ’s newly released cover of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is a striking choice. The original version, a 1980 single from British synth-rock legends Joy Division, was released six ...

Kiah resides in East Tennessee, where she’s spent the entirety of her 34 years next to the Appalachian Mountains in one modest-size municipality or another, but she’d driven 300 miles west to ...

Amythyst Kiah unpacks the trauma of her mother’s suicide on “Wary + Strange.” Credit: Sandlin Gaither In fact, Kiah said, “pretty much all of the songs on the record were written either ...

Fresh off of her debut album, Wary + Strange, Amythyst Kiah, stopped by the Mountain Stage in 2021 to perform for a limited capacity audience in Charleston, W. Va. "Our next performer is having a ...

Amythyst Kiah has released a stylish video for her new single “Black Myself,” which is also the East Tennessee singer-songwriter’s debut solo recording for Rounder Records. Directed by Kwaku ...