Carolina Chocolate Drops: Digging the new-old roots
Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 30 January 2008
YODELING IS AFRICAN? Well, one could certainly trace the practice from the Ituri of the Congolese rainforest, described as the first people by ancient Egyptian chroniclers, to country icons such as Jimmie Rodgers — who, incidentally, recorded with Louis Armstrong — but also to less-explored sonic shores like James Brown's iconic scream or Marvin Gaye's version limning his legendary 1970s LP cycle.
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