Sunday, January 17, 2010

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Brian Frizzell draws our attention to this promotional video released by Nonesuch for the Carolina Chocolate Drops new CD, Genuine Negro Jig. The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a young African-American stringband that have been playing together since 2005, inspired in part by the great Joe Thompson. As the Nonesuch record deal suggests, they have been doing quite well.

2 comments:

the sandwich life said...

yeah.....I like these guys a lot...

Ellen Stanley said...

Yeah, they're great...interviewed Dom Flemons a couple years back for an article I wrote for METRO.

Also, an interesting side note: banjo player Rhiannon Giddens is yet another folk product of Oberlin.