Carolina Chocolate Drops
Genuine Negro Jig
(Nonesuch)
"The mission of the Carolina Chocolate Drops was always to preserve the music of our mentor Joe Thompson and to honor the Black string band traditions that helped create American roots music," multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons wrote recently, on Facebook.
First issued in 2010, Genuine Negro Jig won that year's "Best Traditional Folk album" Grammy. Nonesuch has announced plans to re-release it next January. Clap hands, bend knees, and know that it's good to breathe. Raise dust 'round the porch to these upturned, string-band souls. Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons, and Justin Robinson anthemize jump-down, turn-around people -- and that's all of us, this being a chunk of America's heart. Yesterday/today seamlessness locates actualization via banjos, fiddles, leg percussion, and "computer hard drive 'triangle.'" Humanity steps it down.
“There’s magic in the excitement and drama and the wealth of culture that is translated through a live performance,” Flemons told PineStrawMag, last March.. “It’s something beyond just music. It’s a feeling as well and, if you’re deep in the culture, you understand the nuances of that feeling. In the ’50s, they talked about old-time music and analyzed it a certain way. So, when you read books about it, you can understand it to a degree. But once you’re in it, that’s when you can take on a whole other quality.”
Recommended: "Peace Behind the Bridge," "Trouble in Your Mind," "Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine," "Cornbread and Butterbeans," "Snowden's Jig (Genuine Negro Jig)," "Why Don't You Do Right?," "Cindy Gal," "Sandy Boys," "Reynadine," "Trampled Rose," "
Videos: "Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine" "Cornbread and Butterbeans" (live) "Snowden's Jig (Genuine Negro Jig" (live) "Reynadine"
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