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starry-eyed-psychopomp · 5 months

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We don’t give the Carolina Chocolate Drops enough credit for pulling a Lucy Gray before Lucy Gray even existed.

For the original Hunger Games movie, they wrote a song for the Songs of District Twelve album called “Daughter’s Lament.” Much like Lucy Gray’s songs, they adapted a traditional folk song, “Young Hunting,” and turned it into a beautiful song based the story of the book (specifically Katniss’s dad’s death).

People rarely talk about their song from the album, but it’s aged the best out of all of them, and I hope more people recognize that.

#also the fact that it ends with never more instead of forever like the original is so sad and so PERFECT #Rhiannon Giddens stays on top #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosbas #carolina chocolate drops #rhiannon giddens #lucy gray baird

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nonesuchrecords · 11 months

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Among the 70 Best Alt-Country Albums of All Time per Paste magazine are Hurray for the Riff Raff’s LIFE ON EARTH, Yola’s Walk Through Fire, Rhiannon Giddens’ Freedom Highway, k.d. lang’s Ingénue, Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue, Carolina Chocolate Drops' Genuine Negro Jig, Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball, and Wilco's Being There. You can see the full list here.

#alt-country #paste magazine #hurray for the riff raff #yola #rhiannon giddens #k.d. lang #billy bragg #wilco #carolina chocolate drops #genuine negro jig #emmylou harris #nonesuch #nonesuch records #americana music

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krispyweiss · 2 months

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Song Review: Rhiannon Giddens - “The Ballad of Sally Anne”

The banjo is great.

The drums adds extra heft.

The fiddle is simpatico.

But when Rhiannon Giddens tosses in layers of piano, horns, cello and backgrounds to the arrangement, her version of “The Ballad of Sally Anne” winds up too busy for its own good.

Giddens’ track is out to announce the April 12 arrival of My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall, which also includes contributions from Allison Russell, Valerie June, Leyla McCalla, Sunny War and others.

“Because all the singers of my songs had been white, because country has whitewashed black lives out of country space, most of my audience assumed the stars of my songs were all white,” Randall said in a statement.

“I wanted to rescue my black characters. This album does that.”

Giddens’ number serves the purpose well, but has too much going on. This is particularly disappointing as the sparse beginning reveals just how much more her version of “The Ballad of Sally Anne” could’ve been with fewer collaborators.

Grade card: Rhiannon Giddens - “The Ballad of Sally Anne” - C+

2/21/24

#Youtube #rhiannon giddens #alice randall #the ballad of sally anne #my black country: the songs of alice randall #leyla mccalla #allison russell #sunny war #valerie june #carolina chocolate drops #our native daughters

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mymusicbias · 2 months

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#rhiannon giddens #banjo #traditional folk music #africa #african american #country music #beyonce #beyoncé #music snobs #dom flemons #carolina chocolate drops #african american folk music #mmb

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importantwomensbirthdays · 1 year

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Rhiannon Giddens

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Singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens was born in 1977 in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2005, Giddens, along with two other musicians, founded the trio the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The Carolina Chocolate Drops would go on to win a Grammy Award, and become the first Black string band to perform on the Grand Ole Opry. In 2017, Giddens received a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2020, was named Artistic Director of Silkroad. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the White House.

#music #country music #musicians #country #black women #native women #native american #north carolina #bluegrass #carolina chocolate drops #Youtube

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jbarneswilson · 19 days

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🎶 Obscure song search! List three songs you think not enough people have listened to, then pass this on! 🎶

the absolutely unmitigated cruelty to send me this and limit me to a mere THREE SONGS!

tanner adell - love you a little bit (acoustic)

carolina chocolate drops - cornbread and butterbeans

joanna connor - when you’re being nice

bonus track: the war & treaty - are you ready to love me?

thank you for this ask, grace! i just had to be dramatic about it for a minute

#grace asks #jbw music selection #music #tanner adell #carolina chocolate drops #joanna connor #the war and treaty

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uzumaki-rebellion · 3 months

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Dipping into my old roots music playlists...who remembers The Carolina Chocolate Drops?

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#Carolina Chocolate drops #Hit Em Up Style #Blu Cantrell Folksy re-make #Youtube

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persephinae · 1 year

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this is really good!

#music #carolina chocolate drops #hit em style #bluegrass #remix #Spotify

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doyoulikethiscountrysong · 5 months

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#carolina chocolate drops #country music #old time music #bluegrass #2010s #Spotify

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nonesuchrecords · 1 year

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The new series My Music with Rhiannon Giddens premiered on PBS stations across the US this week. In the inaugural episode, Rhiannon Giddens visits with three lifelong friends: Justin Robinson, one of her fellow Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founders; her sister, singer Lalenja Harrington; and singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett. You can watch it here.

#rhiannon giddens #my music with rhiannon giddens #pbs #acoustic music #folk music #americana music #banjo #carolina chocolate drops #justin robinson #lalenja harrington #laurelyn dossett #nonesuch #nonesuch records

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krispyweiss · 7 months

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day No. 2, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Sept. 30, 2023

Leyla McCalla controls the weather.

An overcast day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park suddenly turned sun-soaked when the former Carolina Chocolate Drop sang: My face to the sun as she performed Our Native Daughters’ “I Knew I Could Fly” during her Sept. 30 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass set on the Towers of Gold Stage.

“That’s awesome,” she said mid-verse as the Earth’s star emerged from the afternoon clouds.

Following the electric and steel guitar instrumentals of Hermanos Gutiérrez on the adjacent Swan stage and playing cello, banjo and electric guitar, backed with rhythm section and electric guitar, McCalla covered Kendrick Lamar’s “Crown” and offered a gumbo of New Orleanian, Haitian and American music delivered in English and Haitian Creole while showcasing her the Capitalist Blues and Breaking the Thermometer LPs.

The Sound Biteses’ day had begun in the pre-noon fog with the down-in-the-holler, old-time string music of Dry Branch Fire Squad playing the songs of Gillian Welch, Doc Watson and Bill Monroe on the Banjo stage. Later, it was gospel from the McCrary Sisters, who sung Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground,” “Amazing Grace” and other numbers backed by a full band during short, five- to 15-minute sets on the Rooster stage, where Brennan Leigh offered a lunchtime menu of traditional country music.

It was also on the Rooster that Emmylou Harris previewed her Sunday appearance by guesting with Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson and closing their Doc Watson tribute set with Guy Clark’s “Old Friends.”

Shortly afterward, Bettye LaVette sauntered onstage to deliver her grinding version of Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed.” From here, it was an impassioned reading of songs from the Randall Bramblett-written LaVette! album as the singer prowled the stage and proved her 77 years have cost her nothing in vocal prowess and stage presence.

“If I could write, this is what I would have said,” LaVette said in introducing the new songs, which worked better on stage than on wax.

Rickie Lee Jones attracted a ginormous crowd to Banjo - “I haven’t seen so many people in front of me for so long,” she said, soaking it in - and their enthusiasm rubbed off. Jones, whose band included Vilray on guitar and vocals, plus accordion and bass, was animated as she danced around the stage and crooned like a lounge singer when she wasn’t playing guitar, banjo or piano.

Opening with a radically rearranged “Danny’s All-Star Joint” more suited for the streets of New Orleans than the fields of Golden Gate, Jones went on to perform “I Won’t Grow Up” - for the first time, she said - “Last Chance Texaco,” “We Belong Together” and a sinewy rendition of Steely Dan’s “Show Biz Kids” that found Jones lifting her orange sweater to sing of the Rickie Lee T-shirt beneath.

Give RLJ the MVP for turning in HSB No. 2’s No. 1 gig.

Faced with the quintessential festivalgoers’ dilemma, Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites split the last hour between Steve Earle’s uncharacteristically sleepy solo-acoustic set on the Banjo and Irma Thomas’ barnburner R&B/soul revival at the Rooster.

At 82, Thomas played the day’s most rambunctious set, ripping into “Time is on My Side” and getting the audience bouncing and waving their handkerchiefs on her mashup of “I Done Got Over It” -> “Iko Iko” -> “Hey Pocky Way” -> “I Done Got Over It.” That one might be ringing through Golden Gate’s trees along with the birdsong for some time to come.

Read Sound Bites’ coverage of HSB Day One here.

10/1/23