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# Swannanoa Tunnel
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/my-music-rhiannon-giddens/extras/swannanoa-tunnel-opmbcq/
- Published: 2024-12-12T21:45:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T11:23:40.000Z
- Description: Rhiannon Giddens tells the story of the folk song "Swannanoa Tunnel."
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: My Music with Rhiannon Giddens, #ZZZ_Show_abf9b76e-336a-4363-9407-727b111ad940, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_9fa67a95-de48-4a6d-87e0-5353af192f5a, #extra

Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens tells a story of black convict labor in the post Civil War South, and how their dangerous work on a mountain railroad became the basis for a popular folk song whose lyrics got whitewashed and then recently rediscovered.