View basket “The Highway” has been added to your basket. 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 Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace Of Sin Americana / Country | 4 Men With Beards | 180g, 1LP Released 30th August 2016 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace Of Sin £26.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M135LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Over The Rhine Love & Revelation Americana / Country | Great Speckled Dog | 180g, 1LP Released 5th April 2019 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Over The Rhine Love & Revelation £26.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Great Speckled Dog SKU: LPGSD110 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 5th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents Country Soul Sisters Volume 2 Americana / Country | Soul Jazz | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 6th June 2013 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents Country Soul Sisters Volume 2 £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Soul Jazz SKU: SJRLP267 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 6th June 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Austin Lucas Stay Reckless Americana / Country | New West | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 26th August 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Austin Lucas Stay Reckless £14.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: NW5077 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th August 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Molly Tuttle When You’re Ready Americana / Country | Compass | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 5th April 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Molly Tuttle When You’re Ready £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Compass SKU: COM47281 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen We’ve Got A Live One Here! 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