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Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind (CD)

By: Carolina Chocolate Drops (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind (CD) Album By Carolina Chocolate Drops (Arti...
1   Starry Crown
2   Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind
3   Rickett's Hornpipe
4   Ol' Corn Likker
5   Little Sadie
6   Little Margaret
7   Dixie
8   Black Annie
9   Tom Dula
10   George Buck
11   Old Cat Died - (with Sule Greg Wilson)
12   Another Man Done Gone
13   Black-Eye D Daisy
14   Short Life Of Trouble
15   Sally Ann
16   Sourwood Mountain
 
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Rolling Stone (p.71) - "DONA GOT A RAMBLIN' MIND is dazzling in its velocity and virtuosity..."
Dirty Linen (p.48) - "[T]hey represent the hope for rebirth and continuation of a vibrant, exciting genre....Every note exudes excitement and vitality."
Living Blues (p.33) - "The music the Chocolate Drops make is good-timey and danceable, with a rugged undercurrent of hard-bitten wisdom contained in the lyrics."
No Depression (p.96) - "Their debut discs brims with exuberance. Tackling sixteen traditional songs -- some well-known, others obscure -- the group transcends any whiff of novelty while conjuring up a bygone era."

Title Note

Carolina Chocolate Drops: Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons, Justin Robinson (banjo).

Additional personnel: Sule Greg Wilson (percussion).

Some 80 years after its initial era, traditional string-band/jug-band folk music of the kind played by Gid Tanner and Uncle Eck Dunford in the 1920s and '30s was a rarity in itself, but the fact that the Carolina Chocolate Drops are young African-Americans rather than aged Caucasians makes them stand out even more. The trio employs fiddle, acoustic guitar, banjo, and--yes--jug, for a sound that's full of reverence for first-generation string-band music but breathes with plenty of sonic vitality. Unsurprisingly, there are traditional tunes aplenty on the band's debut album, DONA GOT A RAMBLIN' MIND, and the Chocolate Drops tear into them with the same reckless abandon that made their musical heroes' music so immediately appealing so many years earlier.

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In April 2005, Dom Flemings, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson me at the Black Banjo Gathering, a ground-breaking musical and educational event that was held in Boone, NC. They rapidly discovered a common sense of purpose, and after many visits to respected elder fiddler Joe Thompson, the Carolina Chocolate Drops were born. They have since performed their work in a school system where they seek to inspire a new generation of music makers, and many Thursday nights you can still find them at Joe's house, listening to his stories and seeking to learn more of his music. Digipak.

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