Carolina Chocolate Drops: Newport Folk 2011

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Carolina Chocolate Drops performs at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival.

Shantel Mitchell for NPR

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.

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"