Newport Folk 2011: Carolina Chocolate Drops, Live In Concert
Carolina Chocolate Drops performs at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival.
Carolina Chocolate Drops performs at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival.
Set List
- Georgia Buck
- Short Life of Trouble
- Didlbux
- Baby Ain't Sweet
- Dom
- No Man's Mama
- Briggs'
- Run Mountain
- I Truly Understand
- Old Cat Died
- Hit 'Em Up
- Sourwood
Carolina Chocolate Drops' members met at the 2005 Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, N.C., and have spent the years since revitalizing and refreshing a glorious tradition of African-American string-band music. But this is no mere trio of nostalgia-miners: Members Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson are as likely to work with a progressive orchestra, or to reinvent Blu Cantrell's R&B hit "Hit 'Em Up Style," as they are to draw on old-time jug-band favorites. Hear the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops perform live at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I.
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