Genuine Negro Jig Carolina Chocolate Drops SKU: 7559798005 Barcode: 0075597980059 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Nonesuch Released Date: 20th July 2010 Buying Format: 1LP Includes CD Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The Carolina Chocolate Drops are as much about revelation as revival. On their Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig, the trio brings exuberance, humour, virtuosity and an infectious acoustic groove to its exploration of a near-forgotten brand of banjo-driven string-band music originating more than a century ago in the foothills of North Carolina, the Piedmont region where band members Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson were raised. In this rural area, musicians, both black and white, once shared and swapped tunes. Over the decades, the importance of the African-American role in string-band music was diminished, its sound and significance co-opted by minstrel shows and segregated by record labels. CCD – under the tutelage of nonagenarian fiddler player Joe Thompson, one of the last surviving Piedmont musicians – have reclaimed the old-time songs, making them vital and fresh for right now, reasserting in the process the African roots of the banjo. The Carolina Chocolate Drops have won over crowds at the Newport Folk Festival, on such National Public Radio shows as Mountain Stage and A Prairie Home Companion, and on tours through Europe. Denzel Washington personally selected the trio to appear in his critically acclaimed 2007 directorial effort, The Great Debaters. After two self-recorded independent releases, CCD chose to work with producer Joe Henry on Genuine Negro Jig. As with his production on Allen Toussaint’s The Bright Mississippi, Henry emphasizes simplicity, clarity, interaction; with its striking lack of studio frills, the emphasis is on the spirit of these performances, which are often as intense as they are exhilarating. Uptempo numbers like live-show favourite ‘Cornbread and Butterbeans’ and ‘Sandy Boys’ are immediate standouts, though slow-burning, moody tracks like ‘Kissin’ and Cussin’ and ‘Snowden’s Jig (Genuine Negro Jig)’ prove to be downright haunting. The versatile Giddens performs the Celtic-style balladry of ‘Reynadine’ acapella; she’s equally convincing taking lead on a brilliant recasting of the 2001 Blu Cantrell R&B-dance hit, ‘Hit ‘Em Up Style’. Genuine Negro Jig starts out with the specific but winds up with the universal; this is music that has literally travelled continents and centuries to achieve a brand new relevance, a shared history still in the making. Artist Carolina Chocolate Drops Genre Americana / Country Label Nonesuch Buying Options 1LP Includes CD Format 1LP , Includes CD Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1 Peace Behind The Bridge 2 Trouble In Your Mind 3 Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine 4 Hit 'Em Up Style 5 Cornbread And Butterbeans 6 Snowden's Jig (Genuine Negro Jig) 7 Why Don't You Do Right? 8 Cindy Gal 9 Kissin' And Cussin' 10 Sandy Boys 11 Reynadine 12 Trampled Rose, Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Carolina Chocolate Drops and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Carolina Chocolate Drops Leaving Eden Americana / Country | Nonesuch | 1LP, Includes CD Released 28th March 2012 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Carolina Chocolate Drops Leaving Eden £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Nonesuch SKU: 7559796253 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 28th March 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shy And The Fight All That We See Or Seem / Breaks Americana / Country | Popty-Ping | 7", Single Released 20th July 2012 £6.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Shy And The Fight All That We See Or Seem / Breaks £6.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Popty-Ping SKU: PING001 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 20th July 2012 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Justin Townes Earle Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now Americana / Country | Bloodshot | 1LP Released 22nd March 2012 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Justin Townes Earle Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS193LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd March 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Caroline Rose Superstar Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code, Includes Poster Released 6th March 2020 £16.00 Select options Caroline Rose Superstar £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code, Includes Poster Released Date: 6th March 2020 Read More Select options Paul's picks View Product Quick View Chris Shiflett Hard Lessons Americana / Country | Thirty Tigers | 1LP Released 21st June 2019 £15.00 Select options Chris Shiflett Hard Lessons £15.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Thirty Tigers Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st June 2019 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Holly Williams The Highway Americana / Country | Georgiana Records | 1LP Released 5th April 2024 £90.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Holly Williams The Highway £90.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Georgiana Records SKU: nn283938 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Jayhawks, The Hollywood Town Hall Americana / Country | American | 180g, 1LP Released 13th October 2014 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jayhawks, The Hollywood Town Hall £25.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: American SKU: AAME91401 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 13th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hiss Golden Messenger Bad Debt Americana / Country | Paradise Of Bachelors | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 13th January 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hiss Golden Messenger Bad Debt £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Paradise Of Bachelors SKU: POB011LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Case Hardin Colours Simple Americana / Country | Clubhouse Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 9th June 2018 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Case Hardin Colours Simple £15.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Clubhouse Records SKU: CRUK0031LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 9th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Songs: Ohia Hecla & Griper (15th Anniversary Edition) Americana / Country | Secretly Canadian | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 29th April 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Songs: Ohia Hecla & Griper (15th Anniversary Edition) £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Secretly Canadian SKU: SC008LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th April 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Merle Haggard I Am What I Am Americana / Country | Vanguard | 180g, 1LP Released 21st May 2010 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Merle Haggard I Am What I Am £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Vanguard SKU: AVAN80351 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 21st May 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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