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, April 16, 2013
Luminato Line-Up Includes Free Sets from Bombino, Amadou & Mariam, Laurie Anderson, Carolina Chocolate Drops
The line-up for the 2013 Luminato Festival in Toronto has been announced, and included among this year’s performers are Bombino, Amadou & Mariam, Laurie Anderson, and Carolina Chocolate Drops. All of these artists will give free concerts in David Pecaut Square at the Hub of the Festival, which runs from June 14 to 23. Among the Luminato Festival’s other highlights will be a multi-artist, two-night tribute to Joni Mitchell at Massey Hall.
- Monday, April 1, 2013
Carolina Chocolate Drops Launch US Spring Tour
Carolina Chocolate Drops, whom Paul Krugman recently featured briefly in his New York Times Friday Night Music column, launch a months-long spring tour of the United States with a performance at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia, tonight. The extensive, nationwide tour includes shows in New York, Boston, Charlotte, San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, and more, as well as sets at festival like DelFest and ROMP.
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).
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.
