Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are an African-American string band based in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Rooted in the traditional music of the foothills and mountains of North and South Carolina, this unique string band is made up of two Carolina natives, Rhiannon Giddens (b.1977) (banjo, fiddle, voice) and Justin Robinson (b.1982) (fiddle, voice) as well as a songster from Arizona, Dom Flemons (b.1982) (guitar, banjo, jug, harmonica, snare & voice).
1. Starry Crown
2. Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind
3. Ricketts Hornpipe
4. Ol' Corn Likker
5. Little Sadie
6. Little Margaret
7. Dixie
8. Black Annie
9. Tom Dula
10. Georgie Buck
11. Old Cat Died
12. Another Man Done Gone
13. Black-Eyed Daisy
14. Short life of Trouble
15. Sally Ann
16. Sourwood Mountain
Other CDs by Carolina Chocolate Drops:
Dom Flemon's solo album "Dance Tunes, Ballads and Blues"
Sankofa Strings: Colored Aristocracy
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Heritage – Import (Dixiefrog Records)
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Read Reviews
Music Review by Richard Marcus from Blogcritics Magazine
Listen to NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, Jan 28, 2007 ,"Chocolate Drops Revive String-Band Sound" by Karen Michel
River Front Times (St. Louis, MO) - Drop It Like It's Hot
The Independent (Durham, NC) - Dona Got a Ramblin Mind Review
Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC) - Bands to Watch 2006
Washington Times (Washington, DC) - Black String Band Music
Rolling Stone New CD Reviews: Fricke's Picks, by David Fricke
Modern Jug-Band Music
Carolina Chocolate Drops are three young black musicians revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black strong-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties - the dirt-floor dance electricity of Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon's Jug Stompers. Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind(Music Maker) is dazzling in its velocity and virtuosity, while the a capella lament "Another Man Done Gone" and waltz "Short Life of Trouble" ensure that you don't miss the blues that drove those pioneers to make such defiantly ecstatic music.
1. Starry Crown
2. Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind
3. Ricketts Hornpipe
4. Ol' Corn Likker
5. Little Sadie
6. Little Margaret
7. Dixie
8. Black Annie
9. Tom Dula
10. Georgie Buck
11. Old Cat Died
12. Another Man Done Gone
13. Black-Eyed Daisy
14. Short life of Trouble
15. Sally Ann
16. Sourwood Mountain
Other CDs by Carolina Chocolate Drops:
Dom Flemon's solo album "Dance Tunes, Ballads and Blues"
Sankofa Strings: Colored Aristocracy
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Heritage – Import (Dixiefrog Records)
Go back to the Music Maker Website.
Read Reviews
Music Review by Richard Marcus from Blogcritics Magazine
Listen to NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, Jan 28, 2007 ,"Chocolate Drops Revive String-Band Sound" by Karen Michel
River Front Times (St. Louis, MO) - Drop It Like It's Hot
The Independent (Durham, NC) - Dona Got a Ramblin Mind Review
Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC) - Bands to Watch 2006
Washington Times (Washington, DC) - Black String Band Music
Rolling Stone New CD Reviews: Fricke's Picks, by David Fricke
Modern Jug-Band Music
Carolina Chocolate Drops are three young black musicians revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black strong-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties - the dirt-floor dance electricity of Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon's Jug Stompers. Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind(Music Maker) is dazzling in its velocity and virtuosity, while the a capella lament "Another Man Done Gone" and waltz "Short Life of Trouble" ensure that you don't miss the blues that drove those pioneers to make such defiantly ecstatic music.