Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Watch: Carolina Chocolate Drops Preview "Leaving Eden" Tune, Hazel Dickens' "Pretty Bird"
![Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Leaving Eden" [cover]](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-image/media/images/carolina-chocolate-drops-leaving-eden.jpg "Carolina Chocolate Drops: \"Leaving Eden\" [cover]")
Carolina Chocolate Drops' new album, Leaving Eden, the group's Buddy Miller-produced follow up to their Grammy Award-winning album Genuine Negro Jig, is due out just one week from today on CD via Nonesuch Records. The vinyl release is due to follow on March 20. Both formats are available to pre-order in the Nonesuch Store now with an instant download of the album track "Country Girl," which NPR named a Song of the Day. Last month, we posted a short preview video with the album's opening track, "Riro's House." You can now catch another sneak peek in a new video featuring the band's take on the Hazel Dickens tune "Pretty Bird" below and watch both at nonesuch.com/media. While there's still a week to go before the release of Leaving Eden, the reviews have already started to come in from the UK, where the Independent on Sunday gives the album four stars. Also in the UK, Carolina Chocolate Drops were the guests on BBC Radio 6 Music's The Huey Show this past weekend. They spoke with Huey and perform a couple of songs of the new album—"Riro's House" and "No Man's Mama. You can listen online at bbc.co.uk; the band's first set begins at about 2:15 in.
Carolina Chocolate Drops are the subject of a feature article in the Guardian, in which band member Dom Flemons talks to writer Alfred Hickling about one particularly noteworthy instrument included in the band's unique instrumentation: bones. "Flemons' virtuosity on the bones adds a distinctive snap to the Chocolate Drops' sound, a form of old-time jug band blues played with contemporary R&B attitude," writes Hickling. Read what Flemons has to say at guardian.co.uk. The bones, among many other topics, including the band's thoughts on working with producer Buddy Miller, are part of another feature article on the band, in The Arts Desk, which you can read at theartsdesk.com.
Watch a preview of Leaving Eden, featuring "Pretty Bird," here:
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My wife Barb and I drove to Bloomington last night to see your show. Loved it. First time for us, want be the last time. I was in the balcony yelling "Pretty Bird" not "Free Bird" this time. Pretty Bird is a special song for me. My neice sang it for me as a farewell to my mother at her grave side celibration. She did a great job. Barb and I rescude a beagle mix dog 4 years ago and her name is Little Pretty Bird, she goes by Birdie. The best little dog ever. We were disapointed not hearing you sing the song but don't worry because we certanly enjoyed the show . All of you were great. Can't wait to get your new CD and catch the Carolina Chocolate Drops again.
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