Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Riro's House (Traditional) | 2:02 |
| 2 | Kerr's Negro Jig (Traditional) | 1:09 |
| 3 | Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man? (Cousin Emmy) | 3:46 |
| 4 | Boodle-De-Bum-Bum (Ben Curry/Dom Flemons) | 4:03 |
| 5 | Country Girl (Rhiannon Giddens/Lalenja Harrington/Adam Matta) | 3:22 |
| 6 | Run Mountain (J. E. Mainer) | 2:01 |
| 7 | Leaving Eden (Laurelyn Dossett) | 4:36 |
| 8 | Read 'Em John (Traditional) | 1:54 |
| 9 | Mahalla (Hannes Coetzee) | 1:54 |
| 10 | West End Blues (Etta Baker/Rhiannon Giddens) | 3:02 |
| 11 | Po’ Black Sheep (Traditional) | 3:21 |
| 12 | I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man (Traditional) | 2:34 |
| 13 | No Man’s Mama (Lew Pollack/Jack Yellen) | 4:00 |
| 14 | Briggs’ Corn Shucking Jig / Camptown Hornpipe (Traditional) | 2:54 |
| 15 | Pretty Bird (Hazel Dickens) | 4:04 |
News & Reviews
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Watch: Carolina Chocolate Drops Preview "Leaving Eden" Tune, Hazel Dickens' "Pretty Bird"
Carolina Chocolate Drops' new album, Leaving Eden, is due out next week on CD with vinyl to follow on March 20. Catch a sneak peek in a new video preview featuring the band's take on the Hazel Dickens tune "Pretty Bird" here. In the UK, the Independent on Sunday gives the album four stars. The band appeared on BBC Radio 6 Music's The Huey Show, discussing and performing songs from the new album, and are featured in The Arts Desk and the Guardian, which describes their sound as "a form of old-time jug band blues played with contemporary R&B attitude."
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Punch Brothers, The Low Anthem Featured on The Chieftains' 50th Anniversary Album, "Voice of Ages"
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Punch Brothers, and The Low Anthem have joined celebrated Irish band The Chieftains to mark that group's 50th anniversary with a new album, Voice of Ages. The album, produced by T Bone Burnett, finds The Chieftains performing with these three Nonesuch artists as well as Bon Iver, The Civil Wars, The Decemberists, and others. The New York Times calls it "an album of collaborations with some of the hottest young folk, country, bluegrass, rockabilly and indie-rock talents on both sides of the Atlantic." The Low Anthem will be The Chieftains' special guests on stage at Carnegie Hall on St. Patrick's Day.
About this Album
North Carolina–based Carolina Chocolate Drops follow up their critically lauded label debut—2010’s Grammy Award–winning Genuine Negro Jig, which reached #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart and #2 on the Billboard Heatseekers and Folk Charts—with Leaving Eden, due February 28 on Nonesuch Records, with vinyl to follow on March 20. The group returns with a record of original compositions, covers, and traditional songs produced by Buddy Miller (Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant, Patty Griffin, Solomon Burke). The album is available for pre-order now; a download of the track “Country Girl,” which NPR named a Song of the Day, is included.
With Leaving Eden the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ founding members Dom Flemons and Rhiannon Giddens expand their lineup to include multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins; during their live sets the members share singing duties and swap instruments regularly. (Cellist Leyla McCalla also joins the band on the record.)
The Drops have toured year-round internationally since the band’s inception, playing festivals such as Bonnaroo, SXSW, and Telluride and selling out concert halls and clubs. The band regularly receives critical accolades from publications such as the Seattle Times, which said “What a treat to bask in this Grammy-winning group’s top-notch musicality, easy good humor and understated but sparkling showmanship with just the right dollop of historical background.” And the Capital Times (Madison, WI) said, “The string band performed a joyful, high-energy show that had the packed, sweaty theater moving and cheering for the entire time. The band’s sound is rooted in, and very reverent to, the traditional African-American string band sound of generations ago. But the attitude is anything but old-timey, as the band brought in hip-hop and soul elements, a no-holds-barred energy, and just a sense of playfulness to the songs.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Dom Flemons, vocal (1, 4, 6, 11), snare drum (1), bass drum (1, 2, 12), bones (3, 14), 4-string banjo (4-6, 9-11, 13), jug (4), quills (6, 12), guitar (7), lead vocal (8)
Rhiannon Giddens, fiddle (1, 3, 5, 6, 10-12), 5-string gourd banjo (2, 14), 5-string banjo (3), 5-string cello banjo (4), background vocal (4, 6, 12), vocal (5, 7, 10, 13, 15), harmony vocal (8)
Hubby Jenkins, 5-string banjo (1, 12), mandolin (3-5, 7), guitar (6, 9, 13), background vocal (6), vocal (8, 12), bones (11, 14)
Adam Matta, beatbox (3, 5, 11), background vocal (4, 6), tambourine (6, 14), vocal (8), vocal bass (13)
Leyla McCalla, cello (5, 7), background vocal (7)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Buddy Miller
Recorded by Mike Poole at Buddy Miller's Home, Nashville, TN
Assistant Engineer: Gordon Hammond
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME
Track 1, 12 arranged by Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Hubby Jenkins; track 2 arranged by Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons; tracks 3, 8, 11, 14 arranged by Rhiannon Giddens, Hubby Jenkins, Dom Flemons, and Adam Matta
Design by Al Quattrocchi / Tornado Design
Photography by Bill Steber
Executive Producer: David Bither
FORMAT AVAILABILITY
This album is available from Nonesuch in the world outside of France.
