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18/08/2010

Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music, including an interview with the Carolina Chocolate Drops and music from their latest album.

Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music, including an interview with the Carolina Chocolate Drops and music from their album Genuine Negro Jig.

Based in Durham, North Carolina, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are a rare thing in 2010: an African-American old-time string band. Formed in 2005 by three young multi-instrumentalists - Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson - The Drops perform traditional music from the Piedmont region of the Carolinas, as well as string band versions of 21st century hits thrown in.

The three members first met via an internet group and went on to visit and learn from old black fiddler Joe Thompson, who passed on to them tunes that had been in his family for generations. Their name is a nod to 1930s African-American country blues band the Tennessee Chocolate Drops.

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Wed 18 Aug 2010 19:00
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Heidi Talbot

    The Shepherd Lad

    • The Last Star.
    • Navigator NAVIGATOR043.

  • The Owl Service

    I Was A Young Man

    • The View From A Hill.
    • Rif Mountain RM-004.

  • June Tabor & Martin Simpson - Flash Company

  • Christy Moore

    Does This Train Stop On Merseyside?

    • Listen.
    • Columbia 88697 480002.

  • Ewan McLennan

    Arthur McBride

    • Rags & Robes.
    • Fellside FECD235.

  • Dick Gaughan

    The Pound A Week Rise

    • Gaughan.
    • Topic TSCD 384.

  • Alan Kelly

    Rookery Reels (Bill Hoare's Reel / The Rookery)

    • After The Morning.
    • Black Box Music BBM004.

  • Megson

    Fell To The Breeze

    • Smoke Of Home.
    • EDJ Records EDJ013.

  • Carolina Chocolate Drops

    Trouble In Your Mind

    • Genuine Negro Jig.
    • Nonesuch 7559 79839 8.

  • Carolina Chocolate Drops

    Cornbread And Butterbeans

    • Genuine Negro Jig.
    • Nonesuch 7559 79839 8.

  • Fay Hield

    Mad Family

    • Looking Glass.
    • Topic TSCD573.

  • Coope Boyes & Simpson

    Ten Thousand Miles

    • Live performance.

  • Caroline Herring

    Midnight On The Water

    • Lantana.
    • Signature Sounds 701237201023.

  • Pete Coe

    Byker Hill

    • Backbone.
    • Backshift BASH CD57.

Broadcast

  • Wed 18 Aug 2010 19:00
    麻豆社 Radio 2