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
- Monday, May 14, 2012
Carolina Chocolate Drops' "Country Girl" Video Airs on CMT After Debuting in CMT.com Top 5
Carolina Chocolate Drops’ video for the track “Country Girl,” after rating as one of the most-watched music videos on CMT.com following its premiere last week, will air throughout this week on CMT’s High 5 Countdown. The show airs on CMT at 11 AM ET/PT Monday through Friday, and the video can still be viewed online. “Country Girl” appears on the Grammy-winning band’s new album, Leaving Eden.
- Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Watch: Carolina Chocolate Drops' "Country Girl" Video Now on YouTube
Carolina Chocolate Drops' video for the track "Country Girl," which premiered earlier this week on CMT.com, is now available via the band's YouTube channel. The song is from the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ new album, Leaving Eden, released earlier this year on Nonesuch Records. In case you missed the premiere earlier this week, check out the "Country Girl" video, directed by Thomas Ciaburri, here. The band performs at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, tomorrow night.
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.


