Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden
Artist: Carolina Chocolate Drops | Label: Nonesuch | Format: LP | Genre: Folk / Americana | Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Leaving Eden
Nonesuch 5299809 - NEW LP
Nonesuch 5299809 - NEW LP
Leaving Eden, CCD's second full-length Nonesuch disc, was produced by Nashville stalwart Buddy Miller, the go-to guy for artists ranging from Solomon Burke to Robert Plant to Emmylou Harris. On this 15-song collection, recorded live in the studio with all the players in a single room, the Carolina Chocolate Drops illustrate their own adaptability to grow and change. Following the amicable departure of founding member Justin Robinson, band mates Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons recruited three exceptional new players for the recording and expanded their repertoire to incorporate more overt blues and jazz elements and straight-up folk balladry alongside brilliantly rendered string-band tunes. Robinson's replacement is Hubby Jenkins, a Brooklyn-bred guitarist, banjo player, and singer who had previously busked his way around the country. Joining the revamped trio in Miller's studio were beat-boxer Adam Matta, introduced to them by the NYC gypsy punk band Luminescent Orchestrii, with whom CCD released a live EP on Nonesuch, and New Orleans-based cellist Leyla McCalla,.
Title track "Leaving Eden," an elegiac piece recounting the falling fortunes of a North Carolina mill town, is sung with plainspoken eloquence by Giddens and underscored by McCalla's mournful cello. Giddens takes an overtly bluesy turn on Ethel Waters' 1920's-era wry confession, "No Man's Mama," and she brings a hip hop-style, declamatory flair to her self-penned "Country Girl," egged on by Matta's beat-boxing. Though often striking out in new directions, CCD returns to familiar turf with tracks like "Riro's House," a traditional banjo and fiddle piece learned from their mentor, North Carolinian fiddle player Joe Thompson, and bolstered by a rousing fife-and-drum groove. They pay tribute to the venerable Piedmont guitarist and banjo player, Etta Baker, adapting words to one of Baker's vintage melodies on "West End Blues." And Flemons creates a lively new arrangement of "Mahalla," a joyfully melodic piece by spoon-wielding South African slide guitarist, and YouTube phenomenon, Hannes Coetzee.
includes;
Riro's House
Kerr's Negro Jig
Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man?
Boodle-De-Bum-Bum
Country Girl
Run Mountain
Leaving Eden
Read 'em John
Mahalia
West End Blues
Po'Black Sheep
I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man
No Man's Mama
Briggs' Corn Shucking Jig / Camptown Hornpipe
Pretty Bird
NEW SEALED LP
