This group of musicians make beautiful music, and that is really all I can say about it. It takes me back to that good old stuff that I used to hear my great uncle and grandmother play and sing.
Notes from YouTube: The Carolina Chocolate Drops perform "Leaving Eden" at Memorial Hall,
UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, Feb. 3 2012. With Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons,
Leyla McCalla and Hubby Jenkins. Unfortunately you can't see or hear Dom
very well in this recording but he is playing some really nice guitar.
Leaving
Eden was written by Laurelyn Dossett and is the title track of the
Chocolate Drops' upcoming cd, produced by Buddy Miller.
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Carolina Chocolate Drops Perform Leaving Eden
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden
In an article titled Carolina Chocolate Drops Hooked on Old Time Sounds NPR covers the Carolina Chocolate Drops New Album.
Carolina Chocolate Drops breathed new life into old-time music with the 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig, which put a contemporary spin on Southern string tools from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That collection went on to win a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album.
"I really didn't hear old-time music until I got into the contra dance community," says Rhiannon Giddens, singer and founding member of Carolina Chocolate Drops. "I just fell in love with the banjos, played claw-hammer style. I'd never really heard a whole lot of that, and that was it. I was completely hooked."
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Carolina Chocolate Drops — Hit ‘Em Up Style
New Single due
1. Short Dressed Gal
2. Escoutas (Diga Diga)
3. Hit 'Em Up Style
4. Knockin'
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Genuine Negro Jig - Carolina Chocolate Drops
One of my favourite albums of 2010
BBC
Carolina Chocolate Drops are one of the last exponents of Piedmont string’n’jug band music, an African-American rural style dating back to the early 20th century from the Piedmont Plateau, essentially the foothills of the southern Appalachian Mountains.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Memphis Shakedown
Want to hear some killer kazoo, well Rhiannon Giddens takes that humble instrument to a new level on this clip of the Carolina Chocolate Drops playing "Memphis Shakedown".
Carolina Chocolate Drops @Amazon.com
Carolina Chocolate Drops official site
Carolina Chocolate Drops @SqueezeMyLemon
Friday, April 23, 2010
Carolina Chocolate Drops "Cornbread and Butterbeans"
Notes from YouTube;
Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Cornbread and Butterbeans" at WDVX's Blue Plate Special. For more information on Carolina Chocolate Drops please visit www.carolinachocolatedrops.com. For more information on WDVX's Blue Plate Special please visit www.wdvx.com. For more Blue Plate Special videos please visit www.knoxnews.com/blueplatespecial
Carolina Chocolate Drops @Amazon.com
Carolina Chocolate Drops official site
Carolina Chocolate Drops @SqueezeMyLemon
Friday, April 16, 2010
Friday, April 02, 2010
The Carolina Chocolate Drops
Genuine Negro Jig
click image for CD
I can not say enough about these guys. They are new to me, but they are also very old souls.
From Wikipedia;
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina, United States. Formed in November 2005 following the members' attendance at the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, North Carolina, the group is one of the few remaining African American string bands. The group has three members: Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons, and Justin Robinson, who were all in their twenties when the group formed. All of the musicians sing, and trade instruments including banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, snare drum, bones, jug, and kazoo. The group learned much of their repertoire, which is based on the traditional music of the Piedmont region of North and South Carolina, from the eminent African American old-time fiddler Joe Thompson, although they also perform old-time versions of some modern songs such as Blu Cantrell's R&B hit "Hit 'em Up Style (Oops!)."
Members
* Dom Flemons - 4-string banjo, guitar, jug, harmonica, kazoo, snare drum, bones
* Rhiannon Giddens - 5-string banjo, fiddle, kazoo
* Justin Robinson - fiddle, 5-string banjo, autoharp, jug, beatbox
Carolina Chocolate Drops @Amazon.com
Carolina Chocolate Drops official site
Carolina Chocolate Drops @SqueezeMyLemon
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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