The Carolina Chocolate Drops are an African-American string band based in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Rooted in the traditional music of the foothills and mountains of North and South Carolina, this unique string band is made up of two Carolina natives, Rhiannon Giddens (b.1977) (banjo, fiddle, voice) and Justin Robinson (b.1982) (fiddle, voice) as well as a songster from Arizona, Dom Flemons (b.1982) (guitar, banjo, jug, harmonica, snare & voice). Click on links to hear songs 1/ Starry Crown 2/ Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind 3/ Rickett's Hornpipe 4/ Ol' Corn Likker 5/ Little Sadie 6/ Little Margaret 7/ Dixie 8/ Black Annie 9/ Tom Dula 10/ Georgie Buck 11/ Old Cat Died 12/ Another Man Done Gone 13/ Black-Eyed Daisy 14/ Short life of Trouble 15/ Sally Ann 16/ Sourwood Mountain Other CDs by Carolina Chocolate Drops: Dom Flemon's solo album "Dance Tunes, Ballads and Blues" Sankofa Strings: Colored Aristocracy Go back to the Music Maker Website. Read Reviews Music Review by Richard Marcus from Blogcritics Magazine Listen to NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, Jan 28, 2007 ,"Chocolate Drops Revive String-Band Sound" by Karen Michel River Front Times (St. Louis, MO) - Drop It Like It's Hot The Independent (Durham, NC) - Dona Got a Ramblin Mind Review Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC) - Bands to Watch 2006 Washington Times (Washington, DC) - Black String Band Music Rolling Stone New CD Reviews: Fricke's Picks, by David Fricke Modern Jug-Band Music Carolina Chocolate Drops are three young black musicians revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black strong-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties - the dirt-floor dance electricity of Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon's Jug Stompers. Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind(Music Maker) is dazzling in its velocity and virtuosity, while the a capella lament "Another Man Done Gone" and waltz "Short Life of Trouble" ensure that you don't miss the blues that drove those pioneers to make such defiantly ecstatic music. |
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