This year, Turning the Tables focused on music's "founding mothers." Watch the season-opening concert at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Lizz Wright and more.

Chills all around as Lizz Wright and Rhiannon Giddens invoke the spirit of concert music great Marian Anderson with the spirituals "Deep River" and "Go Down Moses" during the 2019 NPR Music Turning the Tables opening concert at Lincoln Center.

We were pretty floored by Lizz Wright and this set performed with an unwavering grace.

From the sounds of things on the phone, Lizz Wright is going about the business of her daily life while she gives thoughtful responses to her interviewer's questions. There's the ding of a bell as a shop door closes behind her, a whispered "Hi" and, later, the electronic chiming that reminds you to fasten a car's seatbelt.

"There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup," says the soul artist.