Carolina Chocolate Drops

Carolina Chocolate Drops: Digging the new-old roots

Comment by 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 ...

Carolina Chocolate Drops: Genuine Negro Jig

Review by Lloyd Bradley, bbc.co.uk, February 2010

An extraordinary and stylish history lesson of an album ...

Sweet Sounds: Rhiannon Giddens and Carolina Chocolate Drops

Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, June 2012

RHIANNON GIDDENS'S birthday back in February was a bittersweet occasion. The Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder-member's celebrations were tempered by her grief upon learning of the ...

America Unfiltered: The World of Old-Time Music

Overview by Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, 8 October 2015

RUTH UNGAR understands that a lot of people can't tell the difference between bluegrass and old-time music. Anytime they see a group with a fiddle ...