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Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Country Girl"
The video for Carolina Chocolate Drops' "Country Girl," off the group's 2012 album Leaving Eden, was directed by Thomas Ciaburri.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Pretty Bird" Preview
Carolina Chocolate Drops follow their Grammy-winning album Genuine Negro Jig with Leaving Eden, a record of original compositions, covers, and traditional songs produced by Buddy Miller (Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant, Patty Griffin, Solomon Burke), out February 28, 2012, on Nonesuch. Here's a preview of the Hazel Dickens tune "Pretty Bird."
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Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Riro's House" Preview
Carolina Chocolate Drops follow their Grammy-winning album Genuine Negro Jig with Leaving Eden, a record of original compositions, covers, and traditional songs produced by Buddy Miller (Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant, Patty Griffin, Solomon Burke), out February 28, 2012, on Nonesuch. Here's a preview of the album, featuring the opening track, the traditional tune "Riro's House."
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Newport Folk Festival 2011
The 2011 Newport Folk Festival, held July 30-31, offered sold-out crowds two beautiful summer days of music from performers including the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Emmylou Harris, Wanda Jackson, and Chris Thile & Michael Daves. You can now listen to all of those sets online at NPR.org, from the ever "vital and contemporary" Harris to the "blazingly intense music" of Thile & Daves. The Boston Globe says that all the music proved "compelling and indebted to what preceded it."
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Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Short Dress Gal" (w/ Luminescent Orchestrii)
Carolina Chocolate Drops perform "Short Dress Gal" with Luminescent Orchestrii and human beatbox Adam Matta at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. The song opens their self-titled 2011 EP.
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park hosted the 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival October 1-3, 2010, with several Nonesuch artists there to perform: T Bone Burnett with Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Randy Newman, and HSB regular Emmylou Harris, whom the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed "the silver-haired poster girl for San Francisco's favorite annual live music event."
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Carolina Chocolate Drops at Bonnaroo
The Carolina Chocolate Drops—on the road performing songs from their Nonesuch debut album, Genuine Negro Jig, at festivals and clubs across the US—made their Bonnaroo debut on June 11, 2010, and were included among SPIN's 30 Must-Hear Artists there. Photographer Andrew Pearson was there, capturing all the action both onstage and behind the scenes with the band in beautiful black-and-white detail.
For more on Pearson's work, visit aepearson.com.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops Announce Bonnaroo Performance
The Carolina Chocolate Drops tour with music from their Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig, has now added one more date. The band explains here in a style all their own.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops Preview "Genuine Negro Jig"
The Carolina Chocolate Drops offer a preview of their Nonesuch debut album, Genuine Negro Jig, capturing live performances, interviews with all three band members—Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson—and a few words from the album's producer, Joe Henry.
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